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Relief organization Oxfam’s full-time worker switched to a 30-hour work week for 6 months
(Sydney = Yonhap News) Reporter Jeong Dong-chul = For the first time in Australia, it was decided to officially implement the 4 day work week system for 6 months while maintaining the wages of the 5 day work week system for the employees’ Oxfam Australia’ (Oxfam), a private aid organisation.
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According to the Australian daily The Trailian on the 23rd, the Australian Service Union (ASU) announced that the legal right to choose a four-day working week while receiving regular wages for 140 Oxfam workers has been officially recognized through the Employment Agreement -Industrial Management. (EBA).
As a result, for the next six months, full-time employees who work 5 days a week and 35 hours a week at Oxfam will be able to switch to working 4 days a week, 30 hours a week without any reduction in pay.
“Employers have recognized that productivity can come in many forms and that work-life balance is essential to mental and physical health,” said Imogen Sturney, head of ASU Victoria. As the number of workers responsible has increased, the rigid Monday-Friday 5-day work week is a relic of the past.”
Recently, discussions are at their peak in Australia that the current 5-day week should be changed to a 4-day week for work-life balance.
On the 3rd, the ‘Labor and Care Committee’ of the Australian House of Representatives recommended the government through a report that the government should fully introduce a 4 day week system which reduced working hours by 20% while maintaining 100% wages and productivity levels o the system did a 5 day week.
Accordingly, from the end of April, 29 Australian companies are reviewing a plan to trial the four-day working week.
With Oxfam and ASU agreeing to implement the 4-day working week, the movement to reduce working hours for work-life balance is expected to gain more momentum.
Andrew Barnes, CEO of ‘Four Day Week’, which promotes the introduction of the 4 day working week, said, “As a result of pilot implementation in the UK, USA and Canada, it has been confirmed that 100% results can be. deliver with 80% work.” It will be implemented consistently,” he said.
In fact, in the UK, 3,300 people took part in a four-day working week pilot for six months last year, and as a result, job turnover and sickness absence fell, but productivity did not, so most companies will continue to implement it, the newspaper added.
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