Employees are waiting for the government pilot. “I can get the job done very quickly”

In mid-September, the recruitment process for companies interested in participating in the pilot of shortened working hours while maintaining remuneration ended. They can use various models – the two main ones are shortening the working week or working hours on individual days. The incentive is to be state support in the amount of PLN 1 million, but not more than PLN 20,000. PLN per one employee.

Nearly 2,000 people expressed interest in carrying out the pilot project. entities. A week ago, the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy announced that 90 of them were given the opportunity to test shortened working hours.

Reduction of working time. The employees can’t wait

Many employees are looking forward to the launch of the pilot. Among them is Tamara Siemion, an accountant at the Agricultural Plant in Sieńsk (Lubusz Voivodeship), who will take part in the government experiment from January. Mrs. Tamara, as well as three other out of seven employees, will work one hour less from January to June, and two hours less from July to December.

– We decided that this was a better option for us than one in which we would have four working days a week in the second half of the year. It’s better to be at work every day from Monday to Friday, but for a shorter time. I think so as a mother – says Mrs. Tamara in an interview with Onet. — I can “get” my job done very quickly – adds the accountant, emphasizing that the reward will be the opportunity to spend more time with the child.

Ms. Tamara hopes that the experiment will be successful and that she will work less hours after the pilot.

The pilot will also be carried out by the Social Welfare Center (MOPS) in Łódź. The center’s spokeswoman, Iwona Jędrzejczyk-Kaźmierczak, reveals that an eight-hour system will be used with a reduced number of working days per week, and a five-day week with a reduced number of working hours on individual days. The spokeswoman announces that the center will continue to maintain its current availability for people receiving assistance. This is to be helped by the “purchase of digital tools and equipment to improve work” – from part of the funding from the ministry, amounting to almost one million zlotys.

— The project assumes that the pilot program will cover at least 494 employees of the Łódź MOPS out of 819 total employees – says Jędrzejczyk-Kaźmierczak in an interview with Onet.

Trade unionists with reserve

Agnieszka Głąbska, chairwoman of the Trade Union of Social Workers, approaches the pilot project with reservation. — We only know about our center’s qualification for the pilot program from the media. Details are not shared with his employees social – says Głąbska.

The portal’s interlocutor does not hide the fact that she does not trust the management of MOPS, which is related to its conduct during the strike in recent years (the management of MOPS tried to challenge the legality of the social workers’ strike in court). Głąbska is concerned about the announced use of digital tools during the pilot. Their role is said to be unclear to social workers.