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Less work works, new study shows.
Australasian Business Intelligence, November, 2001
Nov 7, 2001 (Herald Sun
ABIX via COMTEX) -- An ACTU official says productivity can improve, if employees work fewer hours. Richard Marles, the assistant secretary of the Australian peak trade union body, says that in France, employment and productivity have both been boosted by the introduction of a 35-hour week in early 2000. He says new studies by the University of New South Wales's Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research & Training have found that Australian employers introducing flexible working hours have been rewarded by improved productivity. The ACTU's research will be used in a reasonable hours test case later in November 2001 before the Australian Industrial Relations Commission.
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