Fiona McCarthy Workers Party Representative for North Belfast is calling for Northern Ireland to introduce the Four-Day Working Week.

Ms McCarthy said that the discussion on the introduction of the four-day week has opened again and rightly so, but we can expect the same hysteria that greeted the introduction of the weekend of for workers to follow as it did a hundred years ago. Yet the sky did not fall, and productivity improved. Just like then work life balance is important for workers and their families in every sector of the economy and workforce. Brad Beaven, professor of social and cultural history at the University of...