Switzerland’s largest commerce union issued an announcement on Saturday demanding a “large discount” of working hours with full wage compensation for decrease and revenue earners.
“Nowhere in Europe do folks work as laborious as in Switzerland. At current, workers work a mean of 41.7 hours per week in a full-time job,” the union famous in an announcement after its 66 delegates met within the Swiss capital, Bern.
Whereas the variety of hours labored has remained secure, the union famous that work depth and velocity are growing. ”Because of this, stress-related sicknesses are on the rise. Workers turn into exhausted, fall in poor health or are excluded from the labour market,” it said.
The assertion didn’t outline what number of hours the union believes an individual ought to work in a full-time job.
On common, a full-time worker within the rich nations of the Organisation for Financial Co-operation and Growth (OECD) works 37 hours per week. The European Union common is 31.1 hours per week.
The union, which is against plans to extend the retirement age in Switzerland, known as for “extra time to reside as an alternative of working longer and longer”. The productiveness positive factors ought to lastly profit the individuals who generated them, it argued.
A number of international locations and firms all over the world have been testing shorter work weeks, together with Iceland, Sweden and New Zealand. Shorter work weeks have in lots of circumstances been related to boosted productiveness.
The thought has additionally gained traction throughout the coronavirus pandemic which has introduced work-family steadiness into sharp focus amid lockdowns and residential workplace necessities.
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