Over the 100 year period from 1870 to 1970 the number of hours a person worked declined from 61 hours per week to 42.  Why haven’t working hours continue to decline? It has been 50 years since the last reduction so the time has now come to reduce the working week by at least another 10 hours by the year 2022.

Long hours of labour are not necessarily conducive to productivity, quality of output or decision making. Indeed, there is plenty of evidence confirming that long hours are counterproductive as well as damaging to health.

Aristotle argued that free time was a necessary condition for full participation in cultural and political life.

We can make this happen with the institution of a Global Carbon Tax.  This corporate tax would discourage the emission of greenhouse gases and act as partial compensation for the pollution and environmental damage that has been inflicted upon all citizens of our world.

Please Sign this petition to advocate for the human right to reduce working hours from 42 to 32 a week while still maintaining a full time salary with a guarantee that any work over 32 hours weekly would be paid as overtime.