The four-day working week in Russia can be tested on volunteer companies during the year. Such an experiment proposed a public ombudsman on compliance with entrepreneurs’ rights in the field of observance of labor legislation Dmitry Porchochkin, writes RIA Novosti.
It is necessary to analyze the situation in different periods and job cycles to understand which organizations can be distributed by such a regime, and what it is impossible, he noted. Porchochkin added that it is still incomprehensible how to save salary at the level of the five days.
“This will be carried out at the expense of the employer or by increasing the number of working hours in four working days? Such a system can lead to a decrease in productivity or to an increase in the wage fund due to the employment of additional personnel. Salary reduction in proportion to spent time will be negatively perceived by employees “, – noted the Ombudsman.
Earlier, a member of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs, Sergei Vostomsov acknowledged the transition to the four-day working week inevitable. He stated that the question is only as and when he will be held. In early March, Moscow Ombudsman Tatyana Potoyeva proposed to first introduce a reduced working week for women.