The SPÖ boss estimates that the voluntary four-day week would cost one billion euros. They should pay the public sector, AMS and entrepreneurs in equal parts. Rendi-Wagner replied to the objection that the entrepreneurs had long since been standing with their backs to the wall, that the productivity of the employees increased and that 15 percent of the wage costs were saved.
It is precisely this four-day week that the SPÖ obviously still needs to be discussed.
Weighty comrades like Hans Peter Doskozil do not think they are such a good idea, more than that: only last week did the Burgenland reiterate the accusation that the 30-hour week was “completely wrong”. Doskozil’s argument in terms of content is this: A worker who earns only 1,200 euros has very little prospect of working less – she then has too little money to live on.
Doskozil, who prefers to fight for higher minimum wages, agreed verbatim News: Whoever demands a reduction in working hours for such people is a pity for social democracy. “And I emphasize this as a message to everyone who likes to fly the flag of solidarity.”
It is an open secret that the relationship between the Burgenland and the federal government has not really improved. So further war? SPÖ MPs in the parliament see opportunities for compromise. Styrian Max Lercher is one of them. “In sectors with a very low wage level, higher wages will be needed. In better paid jobs, people will be grateful if the workload decreases,” says Lercher to KURIER. For both positions – a reduction in working hours and higher wages – there is room in social democracy. It is not an either-or. “Depending on the industry, the union also fights for one or the other.”
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