The government will present the design of the pilot project for the four-day week at the next social dialogue meeting, in November, an official source from the Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security told Lusa this Friday.
“The templates for this project will be presented and shared with the social partners at the next CPCS meeting [Comissão Permanente da Concertação Social]in November,” Minister Ana Mendes Godinho’s office went ahead, without specifying the day.
According to the same source, the launch of the study on the four-day week “will be in 2022, with the registration of interested companies and a first phase of preparation and calibration of expectations, with the aim of executing the pilot project in 2023 “. .
The ministry reaffirms that the participation of companies in the pilot project “voluntary and reversible, always guaranteeing workers’ rights (without pay cut)”.
In the Decent Work Agenda, the government states that it intends to promote a broad national debate, in particular in the Social Dialogue, on new forms of management and balance of working time, in a logic of improving the quality of life and reconciling professional life, personal and family.
Professor of Birkbeck University and author of the book “Friday is the new Saturday” Pedro Gomes was invited by the government to coordinate the pilot project of the four-day week in Portugal, as announced in parliament on September 14, the minister of work.
On the same day, the newspaper Público reported that in October the government would present to the social partners the draft of the pilot project, which will allow the implementation of the four-day week in Portugal.
The Secretary of State for Employment, Miguel Fontes, told the newspaper that the aim is for Portuguese companies to be able to participate in the pilot project this year, so that the experiments can start in 2023.
According to the official, the aim is to cover both the private and public sectors.
Source: DN
