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Re:Glasgow council four-day week on full pay moves closer af... by onion2k on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:42AM (#31863964)
I imagine a council the size of Glasgow won't have any hourly staff. All those jobs would have been contracted out years ago.
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Re:Glasgow council four-day week on full pay moves closer af... by sandworm101 on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:51AM (#31864141)
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.

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Re:Glasgow council four-day week on full pay moves closer af... by happyopossum on Friday June 24, 2022 @12:29PM (#31865034)
> 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...

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