Ms Julia Marciniak:

The four-day week is a brilliant idea but not if there are the same low wages we have now. People will not be able to survive on a four-day week with the current rates of pay in the sector. As a union, we fully support all good employers and think it is unfair on those who pay all the entitlements for workers to have to compete with businesses that are robbing workers regularly and depriving them of their rights to breaks, paid holidays, premium rates of pay on Sundays and so on. It is simply unfair competition.