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Work and Education to be 4 days a week with 3 day weekends.

Submitted on Sunday 26th March 2017

Rejected on Tuesday 4th April 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Work and Education to be 4 days a week with 3 day weekends.

Petition Details

Increased productivity for business (studies show that employees working a four-day work week are more productive and happier overall);
Cutting child care issues and costs, health problems from work related stress and an overall healthier work life balance.

Additional Information

This will improve work/life balance for employees & their families;
The family unit benefits from more time with parents at home;
Employees saving money on commuting to and from work, lunches, child care, etc;
Creation of part-time &/or casual positions to fill the rostering void Friday through Sunday (unless employers choose pay workers fairly for additional hours, which in most cases is not currently the case).


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

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