Labour calls for four-day working week to become the norm
The standard working week in the Netherlands should be cut from five days to four days of nine hours, according to the Labour party MP Martijn van Dam says in Saturday’s AD that a four-day week would free up people to do ‘other important things’. To make sure everyone can work four days a week, the standard number of hours in many pay deals should be cut from 40 to 36. ‘But the government can use the tax system to ensure people retain more of their income and that employer costs are cut.’ Van Dam, who is the deputy leader of the Labour party in parliament, said he did not favour forcing people to work four days. Labour’s social affairs minister Lodewijk Asscher has already taken steps towards this by making childcare cheaper and increasing paternity leave from two to five days, Van Dam said.
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