Valery Ryazansky, First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Social Policy, considers the idea of introducing a four-day working week for women to be understandable, but not extremely necessary, writes TASS.
The Senator called the initiative attractive, because the transition to the four-day week would help women to facilitate both their professional work and housework. However, this issue requires serious study. “If we divide women into specialties, which are divided into a four-day work week and not, how will we explain the rest of the categories?” – Ryazansky asked.
In his opinion, at the present time, on the contrary, a large number of people would like to work more than usual, because “everyone is missing work.” As Ryazansky noted, granting the right to a four-day work week to all women, regardless of their specialty, will require increased funding and the creation of additional workplace capacities.
Earlier, the Ombudsman of Moscow Tatyana Potyaeva proposed to introduce a four-day working week for women. She explained her initiative by the fact that women have a big load – “to combine work and all the worries that are.”
They started talking about the transition to a four-day period again, despite the fact that in October last year, the State Duma criticized this idea. Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs Mikhail Terentyev considered that this could cause difficulties in remuneration.