Full-time workers' rights to ask for a four-day working week could be strengthened under UK government plans to increase flexible working.
Employees would still have to work their full hours to receive their full pay but could request to compress their contracted hours into a shorter working week.
Since April, workers have had the right to ask for flexible working as soon as they start a job but firms do not have to agree.
Education Minister Baroness Jacqui Smith told a local radio station that "flexible working is actually good for productivity".
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