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Full list of UK councils plotting to move to 4-day week despite tax rises

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Staff in South Cambridgeshire Council will work a four-day wee, including bin men (Image: Getty)

Councils are encouraging staff to take a four-day week, it has been revealed. According to the Telegraph, five councils have expressed a desire to take on a four-day week which sees staff work 80% of their usual hours for 100% of their salary.

Last week, Liberal Democrat-run South Cambridgeshire District Council permanently adopted the four-day working pattern affecting bin collections, council tax administration and social housing officials. It has since emerged that councils in Belfast and Fermanagh, Omagh, Glasgow and Edinburgh are now exploring the possibility of following suit. All five councils raised tax on residents last year from between 3% and 8%.

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Many are considering the move despite raising council tax last year (Image: Getty)

As many as 25 councils are also talking to the Four Day Week Foundation, the campaign pushing for the change.

Elliot Keck, the head of campaigns at the TaxPayers’ Alliance, a group that scrutinises government waste, said: “Millions of local taxpayers still face the looming threat of a part-time council if these radical experiments are allowed to begin.

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“Despite paying for full levels of council tax – yet another tax that is rising under this Labour Government – residents are now getting part-time representation, with the councils seemingly more concerned with pursuing these mad ideologies than delivering the services local people need.

“The Conservatives have never tolerated this nonsense and will keep fighting to give the public the representation they deserve.”

During their time in office, the Conservatives had attempted to block councils from introducing four day working weeks but lacked the authority to compel them to oblige.