Petition The Benefits of Having a 35 Hour Working Week

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The 162 million excess hours that people in the UK work, actually constitutes 4.6 million extra 35 per hour a week jobs.

Given that unemployment is just 2.5 million such a piece of legislation could create full employment over night.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

9 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 9 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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Date closed 20 March 2012
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