Half-holiday

Working time is such a time period during which an employee is obliged to perform his labor duties and is provided for by the legislation of our state. There are several types of regulatory working hours, depending on its duration:

1. Normal - assumes 40 working hours per week, regardless of whether you work 5 or 6 days a week.
2. Abbreviated - means a robot less than 40 hours a week, but with a payment level, both for normal working hours.
3. Incomplete - work for less than 40 hours a week with the appropriate hours worked out wages.

Who has a short working day?

The articles of labor legislation provide for the possibility to work for shorter working hours for the following categories of employees:

• employees of enterprises with harmful working conditions. Such opportunities are also provided to the auxiliary workers, and to workers with a combination of professions;
• employees under the age of sixteen years - no more than 24 hours a week;
• employees aged from sixteen to eighteen years - no more than 35 hours per week;
• employees with l or ll disability group.

Any enterprise has the right to establish a reduced working time, relying at the same time on its own funds. If the initiative to establish a short working day comes from the administration, from it it is obliged to warn all its employees not later than 2 months before the innovation.

A short working day at the company on Friday or the day before the holiday can be entered through the redistribution of working hours throughout the week. So, for example, if your standard working day lasts 8 hours, then by redistribution, you can get a short seven-hour working day on Friday.

Also, the labor law provides for the possibility of transferring to part-time work, when the employee is assigned a part-time or part-time work week. Work on a part-time basis does not bear any restrictions on the duration of paid leave or length of service.

Making transfers on a reduced day

In order to ask management to transfer you to a shorter working day, it is very important to approach the registration of the application.

• Not later than 2 months, inform management about the forthcoming transition to shorter working hours;
• do this in writing by notification;
• in the notification, indicate the reason for transferring you to a short business day;
• The notice must be signed by both you and the management, which will signify the consent of the two parties.

The right to a shorter working day for women

A woman has every right to demand from her employer the establishment of a reduced working day for her. In turn, the employer under the labor legislation is obliged to transfer the woman-worker to the reduced working day for the following reasons:

• if a woman is pregnant;
• in the event that she has a child under the age of 14;
• if a woman cares for one of the family members and this is confirmed by a medical certificate;
• when applying for part-time jobs.

In the event that a woman does not belong to any of these categories, the employer is not required to give permission for her transfer to a shorter working day.

If the employer refuses to conduct any of the above categories of employees for a shorter working day, then administrative responsibility is imposed on him and a fine, the amount of which is determined by law.