This will not work.
Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin called for cutting the current eight-hour working day in her keynote speech to her Social Democratic Party on Monday, arguing shorter hours could be offset by increased productivity.
Marin, who floated the idea of a six-hour day before becoming prime minister, would need to convince the other four parties in her coalition to push through a reduction in the working day amid rising unemployment due to COVID-19.
“We need to create a clear vision and concrete steps as to how Finland can proceed towards shorter working hours and Finnish employees towards better working life,” the 34-year-old leader told her party members, who had elected her chairwoman of the Social Democrats on Sunday.
Marin, one the world’s youngest serving prime ministers, has led Finland’s centre-left government since December 2019, after an ally in the coalition forced her predecessor Antti Rinne to resign.
Together with Rinne, who continued to chair the party until Sunday, Marin has steered the government to the left, raising pensions and cancelling some of the previous government’s spending cuts.
Earlier on Monday, her party conference rejected a proposal to experiment with a six-hour working day, adopting instead the objective of shortening hours or introducing more flexibility into working life.
Someone is going to have to do something to deal with the economic collapse, but what this dumb slut doesn’t understand is that entire sectors of the economy are going to be totally wiped out.
For example, if you’re a travel agent, working fewer hours and taking pay cuts doesn’t save your job.
The same applies to most retail workers and basically anyone who provides goods and services for anyone other than the rich, which is most people.
We’re going to need a better plan.
First thing: getting someone other than a woman to make the plan.