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MORE TIME! WE DEMAND A REAL REDUCTION OF THE WORKING TIME.
Working only 4 days a week. In Iceland this is no longer a utopia, but a reality implemented in the different sectors of the economy. The system has not collapsed, the country has not lost, but gained in attractiveness. Working less but better in order to have more time for family, cultural, sports, political and voluntary activities is not a loss, it is a benefit for a modern, egalitarian and healthy society.
In Luxembourg, the average working week exceeds the legal 40 hours. Full-time working women and men spend most of their day at work and on the way to work.
But when women* leave their jobs after 8 hours or more, a second day of work begins for most of them. Because the truth is, women* work a lot more than men, except they don’t get paid for much of it. On average, women do more hours of unpaid work (childcare or housework), and men do more hours of paid work (with pay). This means that women earn less per hour.
Women* struggle to work long hours without being paid, without receiving any social recognition, only to end up exhausted, forgotten. This situation is becoming unbearable and must stop now!
The Covid-19 crisis has further increased the already high mental burden of women* whether they are in essential jobs exposed to the risk of the virus, in telework confined to the house with the children or in partial unemployment, anxious for their professional future.
Enough is enough! We, the women* say ENOUGH! We want to finally take back control of the time in our lives! We want policies that recognize, reduce and redistribute unpaid care work!
This is why we demand a reduction in working hours without loss of pay:
- There will be no reduction in unpaid work without a reduction in paid work time. Households need more time to arrange an equal take-up of unpaid work in the domestic sphere. It is therefore a measure of balancing living time and working time in favor of living time.
- Reducing paid work time allows for a better distribution of work and the fight against unemployment. It is therefore a measure of social justice.
- Reducing paid work time allows more time for family and for social and useful activities. It is therefore a measure of social cohesion.
- Reducing working time means reducing the mental load. It is therefore a measure in favor of health and safety.
- Reducing working hours does not harm productivity but increases it. It is therefore a measure of economic efficiency.