2023-12-06 07:44:00
Pierre-Yves Dermagne, PS Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy, was the guest of Bel RTL matin. At Martin Buxant’s microphone, he announces the launch of a major pilot experiment to reduce working hours over two years.
The Minister of the Economy indicates that this is “work less to work better. It is the desire to be able to test in a large-scale, life-size experiment the collective reduction of working hours, therefore the four-day week to put it another way”.
We are not talking here regarding performing all week over four days, “it is not the compression of working time as we decided and which is being implemented on the ground, it is really a collective reduction of working time, with the maintenance of salaries. C is therefore a worker for four days instead of five with the same salary. We really want to be able to analyze the benefits, the difficulties, of an experience of collective reduction of working time in a whole series of types of companies, in different sectors”he specifies.
286 companies and associations have already registered for an online seminar organized by the Federal Planning Bureau. Professors from Ghent University will also support the process.
In these companies, will workers be able to work four days out of five or seven hours instead of eight? “We want to leave as much latitude as possible to companies to take into account the specificities of their activity, their organization, so we are going to be very flexible on the way we organize things”.
For the minister, the objective is “to have extensive experience in order to be able to learn from it. I remain convinced that this is one of the solutions to the problems on the labor market and in particular to the problems of shortage, because it can make it possible to commit in a heavy, difficult job and to do it in good conditions”.
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