Chapter 3 of the Labour Deal Act introduces two new weekly regimes, the four-day working week and the alternating week regime. Chapter 3 contains no special entry into force provisions and will also apply to the public sector for those agencies and public enterprises covered by the Labour Act of 16 March 1971. [1]
1) Four-day working week
One of the most high-profile parts of the labour deal is the introduction of the four-day working week (Chapter 3, Section 1) with a new Article 20bis/1 in the Labour Act of 16 March 1971. This means that a full-time working week, in principle of 38h, can be carried out on four days instead of five. Therefore, this means that a three-day weekend can be created or the employee can take a rest day in the middle of the week.
