Civil servants will work shorter hours. Another city introduces 35-hour workweek
Local government officials are not waiting for the law on shorter working hours. From September, employees of the Włocławek City Office will work reduced hours. In July, such rules began to apply in offices in Leszno.
We recently reported that the mayor of Leszno has introduced a 35-hour work week in city offices for the duration of the holidays. He announced that if it turns out that officials manage to complete all their tasks with the shortened time, he will consider shortening the work week permanently.
35-hour work week in Włocławek offices
Without waiting for the results of this experiment, the Włocławek authorities announced that they will introduce a 35-hour work week in the city office from September. The specifics will be presented in mid-August.
– The assumption is that the hours of receiving visitors will not be shortened, so that residents have access to the office in a form that is not worse than it is today. Maybe it will even be possible to extend them. But we will provide more details, especially since this is what we have planned with our partners, with whom we want to implement it – said the mayor of Włocławek, Krzysztof Kukucki, in an interview with the Nasze Miasto Włocławek service.
35 hour work week. Work in progress
An advocate of statutory reduction of working time is the Minister of Labour, Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk.
– In my opinion, a four-day week, not a 35-hour one, would be easier organizationally for the entrepreneurs themselves. I would like our activities to go in this direction – she said in May on Polsat television.
In response to a parliamentary question regarding work on the changes, the minister admitted that analyses are currently underway to determine which working time system is the most beneficial and optimal for the employer and the employee.
“In connection with the above, we have asked the Central Institute for Labor Protection – National Research Institute and the Institute of Occupational Medicine for a position on the effective use of employee working time and for information on how much time per day an employee is able to work effectively. In addition, we have asked the Institute of Labor and Social Affairs to indicate the economic and commercial costs of shortening the working week to 4 days,” she wrote.
The SW Research agency asked Poles in a survey for “Wprost” whether they supported the idea of shortening the working week to 35 hours, while maintaining the current salary. 60.4% answered “yes”. 19.6% of respondents were against, and slightly more, 19.9%, answered “I don’t know”.
