Four-Day Working Week Debate
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Baroness Wheatcroft
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Four-Day Working Week
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Lord Callanan (Con)
Again, my noble friend makes an interesting point. Of course, there are many different ways of defining it. He is right to point out that productivity is the key to this. If there is evidence that people will work smarter and harder during the time they are at work, of course that would be a good thing and it would help to bring it about.
Baroness Wheatcroft (CB)
My Lords, the Minister has quite rightly stressed the importance of businesses being able to decide this sort of thing for themselves—what is right for them. So can he give the House an assurance that, under this Government, there will be no return to a three-day week, whatever happens in the energy crisis?
Lord Callanan (Con)
Well, we have no plans for a four-day week; we certainly do not have any plans for a three-day week.