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Great. Another benefit for the salaried over the hourly. I couldn't find a solid answer, but I very much doubt that this pronouncement comes with a 20% raise for everyone paid by the hour.

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I imagine a council the size of Glasgow won't have any hourly staff. All those jobs would have been contracted out years ago.

Exactly. They don't have hourly workers. Neither do Amazon nor Uber. So they can grant all sorts of holidays to "all employees", which really just means the managers.

A 4-day week applicable only to office-working executives and managers is no victory for labor. Imho it is more a failure.

> They don't have hourly workers. Neither do Amazon

I don't know about Uber, but Amazon has tons of hourly workers - over 750k in fact.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/14/amazon-to-hire-125000-employ...

This just means you do 4, 10h days instead of 5 , 8h days. It's the same hours overall.

That would be a 4x10 which isn't the only option for a 4 day work week. TFA describes the council seeking a 20% reduction in hours worked at the same pay not a crunch of the same hours into a 20% smaller timespan.

I don't think so. I think this is an actual reduction in the amount of time spent at work, hence the promise to maintain productivity. I think this is a three-day weekend every weekend.

It would need to be a 25% raise for 4 days of wages to be paid as 5.

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