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Four-day week
August 2024
Workers in UK could get right to request four-day compressed week
Employees could work longer hours over fewer days under government proposals for flexible working
July 2024
Four-day week campaign to launch UK pilot looking at flexible working
Largest UK public sector trial of four-day week sees huge benefits, research finds
December 2023
Ministers threaten to withhold cash from English councils on four-day week
As one local authority carries out trial, government plans to use ‘financial levers’ to stop practice
November 2023
Pass notes
The long-weekend lifestyle: is it ‘pointless’ to work on Fridays?
Multi-millionaire media mogul Simon Cowell has the four-day working week cracked – and there’s a lot we can learn from his schedule
October 2023
Ministers warn English councils not to adopt four-day working weeks
Central government’s attempt to restrict councils’ ability to try out the practice is ‘a massive overreach’, say council leaders
September 2023
Cambridgeshire council defies ministers to plough on with four-day week
Scottish government plans trial of four-day week in civil service
July 2023
‘The council should be setting an example’: Cambourne’s experiment with the four-day week
While a minister has told South Cambridgeshire council to stop its trial, residents are split – if they have noticed at all
Rightwing lobby group campaigns to undermine UK four-day week
TaxPayers Alliance is key player in attempts to end trials of shorter working week in public sector
Minister orders halt to Cambridgeshire council’s four-day week trial
Local government minister Lee Rowley says he has concerns about value for money for taxpayers
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