The decrease in working hours enters into effect on 1 January 2020. Employers shall consult employees on proposals
for the arrangement of the decrease in working hours on the basis of the following options:
a) Each day is shortened by 9 minutes
b) Each week is shortened by 45 minutes
c) Accrued time during the year calculated at the end of the year
d) Other forms of working hours decrease
An agreement must be reached as regards the implementation of the working hours decrease before 1 December 2019.
If no agreement is reached, the working hours are automatically decreased by 9 minutes per day based on full-time employment.
There is also a possibility of shortening the working week even further by cancelling coffee breaks. This must be done in full consultation with employers.
The coffee breaks are 35 minutes per day for frontline employees and 15 minutes per day for office workers.
If coffee breaks are cancelled completely, it is possible to shorten the working week of office workers:
If coffee breaks are cancelled completely, it is possible to shorten the working week of front line workers:
If the coffee break of frontline workers is shortened from 35 min. to 20 min., the decrease could be:
• 2 hours per week
• or 8.6 hours per month
• or 94 hours a year
• or 13.23 days per year.
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