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EU Employment Commissioner calls for four-day week

2023-05-29T16:01:10.682Z

Highlights: Nicolas Schmit of Luxembourg believes that shortening the weekly working time by one day can be useful in a tight labour market. Schmit's position paper is part of a six-month experiment in Portugal on a voluntary basis in the private sector. In France, some administrations have been testing the four-day week for several months, including Urssaf and the National Old-Age Allowance Fund. The European Commissioner recalls that this is a personal opinion and that Brussels does not share a "common position" on the four day week.


According to Nicolas Schmit, reducing weekly working hours is likely to appeal to younger generations.


Supporters of the four-day week can count on a new weight support. The European Commissioner for Employment, Nicolas Schmit of Luxembourg, believes that shortening the weekly working time by one day can be useful in a tight labour market.

In an interview with the Portuguese press agency Lusa, relayed by our colleagues in Le Monde, the member of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party believes that the companies that would set it up would gain in attractiveness among "new generations (who) have a certain vision of the balance between work and personal life".

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A major argument in view of the labour shortages that characterize the Old Continent's job market today. This structural deficit is also a "bigger problem" than unemployment, according to the former Minister of Labour of the Grand Duchy. The European Commissioner recalls that this is a personal opinion and that Brussels does not share a "common position" on the four-day week.

Nicolas Schmit's position paper is part of a six-month experiment in Portugal on a voluntary basis in the private sector. In France, some administrations have been testing the four-day week for several months, including Urssaf and the National Old-Age Allowance Fund, at the initiative of the Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal.

Source: lefigaro

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