The Association of Higher Civil and Public Servants (AHCPS) has heard calls for staff in Government departments to be moved to a four-day working week.
The AHCPS met in Dublin for its annual delegate conference and passed two resolutions calling for a shorter working week.
Delegates called on their unions to support the Irish Congress of Trade Unions’ Four Day Working Week campaign and to introduce ‘work condensing programmes’ in all government departments and offices.
Another motion called on AHCPS to officially sign up to the principles set out by the Four Day Week Ireland campaign and officially join the group.
A spokesperson for the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform, said the department had no comment on the possibility of introducing a four-day working week for the public sector.
Delegates passed a number of additional resolutions on behalf of the 3,600 AHCPS members who work in 50 different commercial and non-commercial government sector.