Can you imagine working four days for 12 hours and having three days off in a row? That is a 4×3 workday promoted by various business groups to stimulate the national economy.
To carry out the project, it is necessary to reform articles 136, 142, 144 and 145 of the Labor Code. However, the proposal would be by mutual agreement and optional between the collaborator and the company and does not replace the current five working days.
Part of the benefits of the initiative are greater foreign investment, which would allow companies to reduce costs in public services because staff would rotate weekly reducing costs in basic services, water, telephone, electricity, and even furniture and physical space.
This schedule would also allow employees to attend formalities and perform procedures in necessary or urgent public institutions, which is difficult when working usually from Monday to Friday, from 8 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon, at the same time and day of the government offices, being forced, in many cases, to request vacations or permits without enjoyment of salary for these procedures,”
Rolando Perlaza, an expert in labor law at Nassar Abogados.
Likewise, another complementary initiative to the 4 × 3 project is the annualized workday, which consists of calculating and distributing the day not by day or week but by annual number of hours, with a maximum of 10 hours a day and a minimum of 6 hours.