“I think that it is impossible to do this today within the framework of the labor code.
Because there are guarantees for workers, enshrined in the labor code, ”he said, calling the proposal“ inexpedient ”.
The MP noted that the work week should be changed "from the point of view of increasing productivity."
In his opinion, there is not always a straightforward relationship between an increase in the duration of working days and an increase in the production of products or benefits.
Earlier, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy, Industry, Innovative Development and Entrepreneurship Nikolai Arefiev, commenting on the idea of switching to a four-day working week, said that one should think not about reducing the working week, but about increasing it, since it is necessary to “pull the country out of ruin ".