Another Silly Idea From Labour.

[webbo3]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7456059/John-McDonnell-hints-Labour-FOUR-DAY-working-week.html

My hospital is only open 8-5 Monday - Friday, so a four day week means I lose 32 hours, how will the Labour government make this shortfall up.

[Baldric]

// Called for the government to guarantee every adult in the UK a
job //

Yeah right.

[davebro]

It's a scam to get more overtime pay at multiple rates x1.5 or x2.

[douglas9401]

I'm holding out for food in pill form, jet packs and lunar holidays.

Promise two from three and then we'll talk.

[HBAnorak]

It's a headline in the Mail and it's about the Labour Party. So you should start from a presumption that it is spun to kingdom come. And sure enough, without even having to seek out any sources beyond paragraph 2 of the Mail's own article, we see that a crossbench peer suggests shaving 2 and a half hours off the current standard public sector working week by 2030 and, perhaps, influencing private sector employers through example/market forces. The Mail does the maths and concludes that this could be achieved by lengthening the working day and doing four instead of five. Sorry, FOUR instead of five, forgot the OUTRAGED caps lock.

Buried much further down the article is the fun fact that British workers have the third longest working week in the EU. That isn't something to be proud of and it will get worse after Brexit - one of the key goals of the hard Brexit Taliban is to get ordinary people working longer hours for the same or lower pay, makes us lean and competitive you know.

[THECORBYLOON]

Where does the lost thirty-two hours come from?

[cassa333]

So you work harder for four days a week for the same money. And then get more days to spend the money you worked harder to get?

It’s swings and roundabouts isn’t it. I like the idea of only working four days and having three days off but working harder!!! Maybe not lol

[woofgang]

that employer of last resort system has been tried many times before....workhouses for the poor springs to mind

[gulliver1]

Another Silly Idea From The Conservatives.
Suspending Parliament.

[Baldric]

Gulliver, what do you not understand about......

John McDonnell sparked a business backlash today after he signalled Labour will support a four-day working week as he backed a report which also called for the government to guarantee every adult in the UK a job.

[webbo3]

Its normally suspended this time of year gulliver.

[Baldric]

Don't confuse him with facts

[webbo3]

Thecorbyloon.
//YLOON

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Where does the lost thirty-two hours come from?//

8 hours a day 1 day a week

[webbo3]

Sorry, my phone is playing up.^

[gulliver1]

Baldric 21 31, Have you ever tried, bending your feet upwards and then try to tighten the muscles in your calves, then let the blood flow to your brain?. It might work.

[Cloverjo]

I agree with HBAnorak.
The Wail does love to twist things.

[gulliver1]

22.01, Whoo Hoo . PMSL,

[naomi24]

//a four day week//

That'll be when the workforce is regularly on strike then. Labour loves strikes.

[THECORBYLOON]

If your hospital is open for forty-five hours and you work forty, is the shortfall made up by someone else?

[fiction-factory]

I think webbo must mean 32 hours a month (assuming 4 weeks in a month). But I'm sure the idea is more staff will be recruited to ensure the total coverage is unchanged