France Set to Trial Four-Day Week for Divorced Parents

France will offer divorced parents who share custody of their kids the opportunity to work four-day weeks as part of a trial scheme to be introduced later this year.

Prime Minister Gabriel Attal offered details of the plan to La Tribune, with civil servants in some government departments given the chance to work just four days a week when their children are staying in their homes from September.

Attal introduced the idea in France’s finance ministry in 2022 and is now seeking to roll out the policy to the broader workforce in an effort to increase the quality of French working life, according to The Times.

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