Call for tenders : ETUC expert study on working time reduction – deadline 8 April

Brussels, 12 March 2024

• To the ETUC Fundamental Rights and Internal Market Legislation Committee
• To the ETUC Collective Bargaining and Wage Coordination Committee
• To the ETUC NETLEX Network
• To the ETUC Member Organisations

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to share with you the ETUC call for tenders for an expert study on working time, which has now been launched.

Deadline for submission of bids is 8 April 2024. We kindly ask you to help with the dissemination of this call to relevant experts in your networks.

The study will be commissioned under the ETUCLEX project, on the topic of working time in a changing world of work, with a particular focus on working time reduction and the role of trade unions. 

The objective of the study is to map and analyse trade-union led examples of working time reduction, notably linked to collective agreements. It aims to equip trade unionists with arguments in favour of working time reduction, inspiring examples of successful cases as well as recommendations for the negotiation and implementation of such working time arrangements.

The detailed call is available in PDF via this link.

In case you or an interested expert have questions, please do not hesitate to contact ETUC Project Officer Thomas Taylor di Pietro ([email protected]) for more information.

We hope you find this research topic to be of interest to your work, and we thank you for your support.

Best regards,

Isabelle Schömann
Deputy General Secretary