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“Ingrida Šimonytė’s response that it is possible to ‘argue for 20 years’ about a 4-day work week shows that we currently have a hostile political force in power,” says Orinta Leiputė, vice president of the Social Democratic Party faction of the Seimas .
According to her, the world’s largest experiment that just ended in Iceland has shown that a 4-day work week not only does not harm the economy but, on the contrary, improves productivity and public health. “What prevents the Lithuanian government from being convinced of this? Let’s start the experiment now”, sums up the parliamentarian the challenge that I. Šimonyte poses to society.
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During the campaign, the call for a national experiment will be based on the opinions of experts and “ordinary” people.
The question of too short a vacation will also arise. O. Leiputė recalls that experts are already starving at the fact that holidays in Lithuania are one of the shortest in the EU: 20 working days. In Scandinavia, workers are usually on vacation for 6 to 8 weeks.
“The shortest workweek tests in Iceland were carried out in the public sector. Employees worked less, but received the same pay,” says O. Leiputė.
“The experiment lasted 4 years. Productivity levels not only did not decrease but also increased.
The experiment was carried out by the government of the country. Staff from various institutions and profiles attended: administrators, kindergarten staff, social service providers, hospital staff. From 40 hours a week to 35 hours. The results are so impressive that now 86 percent. “Icelandic workers work (or will soon work) for less than the same wage,” he said.
Start discussions about the possibility of working in Lithuania at 6pm during the day last year called the Lithuanian Trade Union Confederation (LPSK).
According to Inga Ruginienė, president of the LPSK, the pandemic that has paralyzed the world has left millions of workers unemployed and will be left behind, and the business tends to make the most of those who continue to work instead of thinking about the conditions of productivity . .
“Keeping the same salary, but reducing the rate of working time, there would be many more winners than the big capital and profit institutes trying to tell us. Firstly, it would solve the problem of unemployment, secondly, it would increase productivity (demonstrated a hundred years ago and today), thirdly, people would have money to buy goods and services ”, said I.Ruginienė.
