Business Desk, AnyTV, New Delhi
Published by: Deepak Chaturvedi
Updated Thu, 17 Feb 2022 01:40 PM IST
Summary
Belgium Approves Four Day Week: After the United Arab Emirates, changes are now being made in Belgium’s labor law, under which employees will be given a three-day weekend. Under the new change, they will also be given a special facility to ignore the boss’s message after office. Employees will have to do only 38 hours of office work in four days.
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This big change is included in the labor law
The report said that Belgium is changing its labor laws in order to improve the country’s economy and improve people’s living standards after the COVID-19 epidemic. After talking to his ministers, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Cru has said that due to Corona, we are being forced to work more flexibly. The labor market also needs to adapt to it. He said that the most important change in the new labor law is the permission to ignore their office phone after the working hours are over. According to the law, there will be no fear within the employees about the call of the boss from the office.
May be implemented by the middle of this year
Under the new labor law, employees will have to work only 38 hours in four days. In the new system, employees will not only get a longer weekend, but it will also not affect their salary. Under the new change, an employee can work more hours in a week with permission from his boss, so that he has to work less the next week. The report said that these changes to labor laws are not going to come into force immediately, but before this, after taking the opinion of the unions on the draft bill, the investigation of this labor law will be completed by the State Council, which advises the government before voting in Parliament. . In the report, observers have expressed hope that the changes in labor law could be implemented by the middle of this year.
UAE first country to reduce working days
It is worth noting that in order to reduce the workload on the employees, countries like Scotland, Iceland, Spain and Japan had conducted work trials for four days a week in the year 2021. However, this was followed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) officially introducing a four-and-a-half-day working week in December last year. The UAE has become the first country to do so. Let us tell you that the weekly holiday in the UAE will also now start from Friday afternoon till Sunday. This system has been compulsorily implemented from January 1, 2022.