Proposal for a ‘reduction in working hours’ from the Minister of Labor

Vedat Bilgin, Minister of Labor and Social Security, drew attention to the long working hours and made statements on the need to reorganize working hours.

Saying: “Is it possible for working hours to stay around the 8 hours required at the beginning of the industrial age? Obviously not,” Bilgin said, “Therefore, we Turks have to modernize our working life and reorganize the working hours in more humane conditions”. , taking into account the increase in unit productivity. ”, he said.

‘PEOPLE CAN MAKE TIME FOR THEMSELVES’

Bilgin said that the British also conducted a pilot study on the 6-hour application, and reminded that these studies were carried out in many parts of the world.

Referring to scientific studies indicating that 25 percent of the work done today will be done by homeowners in the future, Bilgin said: “This shows us one more thing: people will be able to spend more time on themselves, more time”. It will be dedicated to human development.

“When we look at how much service workers produced in an hour 100 years ago and how much they produce today, it shows that the service produced by workers working in the service sector has increased exponentially after intervening technological changes,” he said. Bilgin, she said.