viernes, 13 de enero de 2012

Article from The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jan/08/cut-working-week-urges-thinktank


The news that I have chosen refers to the cut in working hours per week. This cut would mean a limit of 20 hours per week and would in the UK as a way to reduce high unemployment in that European country. This measure would have a double effect, in addition to the above, would allow workers to have more free time to spend more time with their families.

The research center New Economics Foundation (NEF) has found employees who work long hours and many people who work very little or are unemployed, so logic would use a simple, consisting of a new social division of labor, a kind redistribution of work: working long hours would be required to work less, creating the possibility of increasing the labor supply for those who are in a more disadvantageous.

The proposal to cut weekly working hours becomes more necessary as some economists such as Robert Skidelsky, predict a decrease in jobs after the recession. This measure would not affect economic success, as they have the examples of Germany and the Netherlands, which show the opposite.

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