Polish companies are increasingly eager to participate in a pilot programme to reduce working time. Hundreds of applications have already been submitted to the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy, and entrepreneurs considering shorter regular work in their companies arrive overnight.
Thursday in Wroclaw at the Minister's press conference Agnieszka Dziemianovich-Bąk stressed that the application to the pilot programme for shortening working time was almost hourly.
- I'm sorry. Yesterday on Economic Forum in Karpacz I said there are over 200 applications, and present almost 300 are completely completed. all day, the number of employers afraid is expanding - said Dziemianowicz-Bąk.
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She recalled that the recruitment had begun since mid-August, and applications are accepted to 15 September. Currently, in addition to approved almost 300 applications, analysed is already complex over 1.5 1000 applications.
- I'm sorry. The programme is an attractive chance to test what is inevitable in my opinion. Sooner or later, following technological progress, following demographic change, there will besides be a minute erstwhile more than a 100 years after the eight-hour working day is introduced," she said.
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Dziemianovich-Bąk At the Karpacz economical Forum, she stated that her fresh task was intended in peculiar to facilitate the start of the labour marketplace to the youngest, only starting her professional traineeship with employees.
"We're done utilizing young people., workers entering the labour market, or people who want to change the manufacture and gain fresh experience, take the first steps in the fresh profession - said the minister.
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The program of the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy does not impose on employers the application of a circumstantial model of shortening changes in employees. The method to effort the fresh strategy is many - it may be both shortening working time to 4 days a week, 6-7 hours a day or extension of vacation leave.
The pilotage will run from 1 January 2026 until the end of December next year.
