‘Compressed hours’ | Workers could gain right to demand a four-day week: What HR needs to know

Employees could be entitled to a four-day workweek sooner than expected, under new rights set to be granted under  employment law reforms coming this Autumn.

As reported by The Telegraph, the Labour government’s plan to improve rights for workers is to include provisions for workers to demand a system of “compressed hours.”

Labour has promised major improvements to worker rights including extensive reforms to employment laws, championed by Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner.

Rayner has been consulting with trade unions and business leaders while putting together “Labour’s Plan to Make Work Pay: Delivering A New Deal for Working People,” known as the ‘New Deal.’