{"id":82668,"date":"2026-02-05T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/blanket-four-day-week-would-undermine-jobs-and-competitiveness-employers-warn\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:15:00","slug":"blanket-four-day-week-would-undermine-jobs-and-competitiveness-employers-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/blanket-four-day-week-would-undermine-jobs-and-competitiveness-employers-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Blanket four-day week would undermine jobs and competitiveness, employers warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blanket four-day week would undermine jobs and competitiveness, employers warn<br \/>\nIntroducing a blanket four-day working week would be impractical under Malta&#8217;s current economic model and would risk undermining competitiveness and jobs, the employers&#8217; association has warned.Malta Employers expressed its concerns on Thursday during a conference organised to launch its position paper on the four-day working week, amid growing public debate on reducing standard working hours.The&#8230;<br \/>\nRSS Feed Source: Times of Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/article\/blanket-fourday-week-undermine-jobs-competitiveness-employers-warn.1123644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blanket four-day week would undermine jobs and competitiveness, employers warn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blanket four-day week would undermine jobs and competitiveness, employers warn Introducing a blanket four-day working week would be impractical under Malta&#8217;s current economic model and would risk undermining competitiveness and jobs, the employers&#8217; association has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[1850],"class_list":["post-82668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-abatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}