Introducing a Shorter Week for Dayworkers

  • Alastair Evans
  • Stephen Palmer
Chapter
Part of the Industrial Relations in Practice book series (IRPS)

Abstract

This chapter is concerned with the practical implications of implementing a shorter working week. The focus of the chapter is on the implementation of shorter working hours for dayworkers, but some of the issues discussed will also be relevant to shiftworkers. The implications of shorter working hours amongst shiftworkers is considered in more detail in Part Two. This chapter concerns itself, in particular, with ways in which shorter working hours may be approached, how they are to be paid for without increasing unit labour costs, and the various patterns of shorter working hours which need to be considered.

Keywords

Trade Union Unit Labour Cost Overtime Working Saturday Morning Short Working 
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in to check access.

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Introducing a Shorter Working Week For Dayworkers

  1. 1.
    1. Michael White, Shorter Working Time through National Industry Agreements, Research Paper No. 38, (London: Department of Employment, September 1982) p. 39.Google Scholar
  2. 4.
    4. Incomes Data Services, The 39-hour Week in Engineering, Report No. 366, (London: IDS, December 1981) p. 19.Google Scholar
  3. 5.
    5. Incomes Data Services, Hours of Work, Study 211 (London: IDS, February 1980) p. 4.Google Scholar
  4. 7.
    7. Incomes Data Services, What Engineering Companies are Doing about the 39-hour Week, Report No. 357 (London: IDS, July 1981) p. 3.Google Scholar
  5. 8.
    8. Incomes Data Services, New Moves to Reduce Hours below 39 a Week, Report No. 355 (London: IDS, June 1981) p. 5.Google Scholar
  6. 10.
    10. White, Case Studies of Shorter Working Time, (London: Policy Studies Institute, 1981) pp. 11–14.Google Scholar
  7. 11.
    11. National Board for Prices and Incomes, Hours of Work, Overtime and Shiftworking, Report No. 161 (London: HMSO, 1970) pp. 52–3.Google Scholar
  8. 12.
    12. Allan Flanders, The Fawley Productivity Agreements (London: Faber, 1964).Google Scholar
  9. 13.
    13. See, for example: E.G. Whybrew, Overtime Working in Britain, (London: HMSO, 1968) pp. 67–87; National Board for Prices and Incomes, Hours of Work, Overtime and Shiftworking (Supplement), pp. 17–27.Google Scholar
  10. 14.
    14. TUC, on the Campaign for Reduced Working Time, Progress Report No. 9 (January 1983), pp. 8–9.Google Scholar
  11. 16.
    16. See TUC, On The Campaign for Reduced Working Time, Progress Report No. 2, (December 1979) pp. 5–6 and No. 7 (August 1981) pp. 8–10; ‘Overtime – Restricting its level’, pp. 4–8; Unemployment and Working Time, TUC Consultative Document (February 1981) pp. 13–15.Google Scholar
  12. 19.
    19. Incomes Data Services, Cutting the Working Week, Study 264 (London: IDS, April 1982).Google Scholar
  13. 22.
    22. Quoted by N. Cowan, in G.R. Cyriax (ed.), Negotiating a Shorter Working Week (Farnborough, Hants: Gower Press, 1980) pp. 18–19.Google Scholar
  14. 23.
    23. IDS, Study 264; Industrial Relations Review and Report, No. 242 (February 1981) pp. 2–6.Google Scholar
  15. 24.
    24. Chemical Industries Association, Introduction of the Shorter Working Week (London: The Association, 1982) p. 11.Google Scholar
  16. 35.
    35. Martin Fisher, Controlling Labour Costs (London: Kogan Page, 1981) pp. 97—8.Google Scholar
  17. 36.
    36. For a further analysis of the issues covered here, see Incomes Data Services, Productivity Improvements Study 245 (London: IDS, July 1981).Google Scholar
  18. 37.
    37. Alastair, Evans (ed.), Practical Participation and Involvement – Vol 3: The Individual and the Job (London: Institute of Personnel Management, 1982) p. 74.Google Scholar
  19. 38.
    38. Incomes Data Services, Maintenance Engineers’ Pay, Study 265, (London: IDS, May 1982) p. 7, quoted in Alastair Evans and Theon Wilkinson (eds), How to Introduce New Technology (London: Institute of Personnel Management, 1983) p. 27.Google Scholar
  20. 41.
    41. Summarised by Evans (ed.), Practical Participation and Involvement-Volume 3 : pp. 30–1, based upon a more detailed listing by David Birchall, Job Redesign: A Planning and Implementation Guide for Managers (Epping: Gower Press, 1975) pp. 49–63.Google Scholar
  21. 45.
    45. Fred Dickenson, ‘When the shorter week is a fortnight’, Personnel Management (April 1982) p. 3.Google Scholar

Copyright information

© Alastair Evans and Stephen Palmer 1985

Authors and Affiliations

  • Alastair Evans
  • Stephen Palmer

There are no affiliations available

Personalised recommendations