The newly formed People’s Trade Union plans to push for a four-day work week as one of its first agenda items with Labour Commissioner Eltonia Rojas. Union President Ralph Potter believes it would allow employees to manage personal tasks without needing extra time off, promoting a better work-life balance.
Labour Commissioner Rojas agrees that the concept is feasible, noting that productivity remained high even with reduced hours during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The union, launched recently, promises a fresh, dynamic approach to negotiations, emphasizing its independence from political influence.
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Yall really either don’t like to work, or just don’t like to pay employees their salaries (is which one really) things hard and yall wanna reduce employees hours, why not ask for a raise of pay for private sector workers. That’s what we WANT. But less hours. When you deduct our hours where we getting the money from that ya get with them hours ?? Did employees ASK you all for less working days (I find that very hard to believe). It comes across as if yall idle and just wanna be busy… get busy pushing so that employees have a decent salary to survive on, then look into the employers who have employees with degrees and not recognizing those degrees and the employees still working for next to nothing. That’s what yall need to look into, but less hours ..NONSENSE
Is it less work day but same pay and ask for significant Increase in pay Tourism workers
The concept is less weekly hours leads to more productive and motivated employees which would lead to an increase in hourly rates. Don’t just dismiss something before you understand the rationale behind it.
Sounds like a good idea especially with the energy levels and the motivation and time on our hands for self and family, could sure do with that priceless time, however, clear the air about the salaries because Mr. tax, his family and the Bills family always waiting with hands fully stretched.
@Foolishness, arrogance is a common trait among the slow. Less hours with the same rate of pay is what most sensible people would grasp from this article. And frankly speaking, there are too many students pursuing degrees in areas with no sustainable or active market in Antigua: psychology, gender affairs, sociology, etc. Send the youths to school for sensible things so they don’t turn out like @Foolishness.
@Foolishness, arrogance is a common trait among the slow. Less days with the same pay is what most people would grasp from this article. And frankly speaking, there are too many students pursuing degrees in areas with no active or sustainable market in Antigua; psychology, gender affairs, sociology, etc. Send the youths to school for sensible things so they don’t turn out like @Foolishness.
We spend most of our lives working and at times don’t have time for ourselves Two days sometimes don’t feel like enough, in life their must be a balance .it could be looked into with proper consideration
We need more time to spend especially with our children and our families.
Always off chasing the dollar, leaving our children unattended, this is one of the reasons they are going astray.
Look at what is more important, is it more money?
What shall it profit us, if we gain the whole world and lose our souls.
May God help us..
Simple solution could be to just raise the pay across the board by 20% so that people could survive while still having to pay taxes, loans, rent, bills, ECT. But hear me out, how about raising the pay across the board for both government and private sector and leave working hours as they have been. The problem isn’t time, it’s the skyrocketing inflation around us while the general public continues to make not enough to reasonably sustain themselves and a family. Maybe if people felt like they were reasonably being compensated for their time, effort and skills they would be more inclined to work and be efficient. Better working conditions only leads to productivity.
smh some yall just ridiculous, and can’t READ cause in order to read u must comprehend. majority of the time it’s those who lack comprehension are always the first to respond, as adults knowing words cannot suffice.
I have not heard resistance to this idea from any major employer to date yet the house slaves of this nation are already rising up to keep the field slaves in check. No wonder slavery lasted so long. Some of y’all can always be counted upon to act contrary to your own interest.
This article didn’t explain much on the concept of a four days work week; however, I’m of the belief that, it simply means working 10 hours for 4 days instead of 8 hours for 5 days.
So, would this proposal incur over time at premium compensation: like time-and- a- half on weekdays when scheduled, and double time on weekends and holidays, with clock start ticking at acceptance, when called in? My take is that the prices are set for catering to the tourism industry and, for the
most part, Europeans expats with assumed spending power; of which the locals must compete with their limited purchasing power; in a seasonal market. This is totally to the disadvantage of the locals consumers, who must scrung to pay and save from the little earned pittances for their servitude, in this scenario: thus creating the two tiers system of the haves and, have-not; and the clamoring convenient work force at tourism seasonal times, and often, the reward refrain is ” wait till next season, thing brown this season” and another economic stagnation for the locals. Diversify the economy with technology transfer and light manufacturing industries to agument agriculture, fisheries and animals husbandry for a balanced blend of a rational sustainable economy and, reintroduce personal income tax on a slide scale, to offset the exorbitant consumers tax which is stifling the have-nots: Then, a four day work week might be feasible. This is just “My” layman’s take, eh!
In st lucia the government recently enacted a 6:52 cents minimum wage . I get the impression that Antigua is way ahead of us as it relates to the development of its people . It is steady happening in the European countries . I support the 4 day working week ….