Chmelar's Socialists propose cutting working week to four days

A scheme involving a four-day working week or six-hour working day is a key element of the fledgling Socialisti.sk party's platform for the February general election. Socialisti.sk, which claims to be the "political heir of socialism with a human face", said that one of the key achievements of the 1968 Prague Spring was the introduction of a five-day working week. Party chairman Eduard Chmelar, a university lecturer and analyst, said that the move is aimed at allowing people to "spend more time with their close ones, to pick their children up from school and nursery schools, and to have more time for themselves, their hobbies, education and recreation".