Government and councils clash over four-day workweek plans
TL;DR
UK government officials have warned local councils against adopting a four-day working week, emphasizing the importance of maintaining full-time pay for full-time work to ensure high standards and service quality, following the first council's trial of the shorter week which reportedly led to a decline in performance.
- Councils warned against adopting four-day week BBC
- Four-day week may be considered a sign of failure, England councils told The Guardian
- Government warns councils against four-day weeks The Independent
- Caller John challenges the case for a four-day week lbc.co.uk
- Ministers struggle to stop tax-hiking councils bringing in four-day working week - threatening to take control of town halls that do Daily Mail
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