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Labour average 32 hour working week announcement “not a French style cap” - Labour source.
This I think is the measure Labour says it is trying to get down to 32 hours a week - average actual weekly hours of full time workers - 37 hours now - it’s come down one hour in 27 years 
The 37.1 hours figure (which is the one they thin they can get to 32) includes holiday leave and sick leave - strip those out and you get the internationally comparable Eurostat figure of 42 hours a week - and these are the Skidelsky charts on that vs rest of Europe and over time
Interestingly the average working week for all workers, including part timers - total hours per week (1.05 billion) divided by total workforce - is already exactly 32 hours... ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/empl…
Looking at that 37 hours ONS number - it appears to apply to 24 million workers.... so keeping that constant, moving to 32 hours, you would get 125 million hours a week less full time work...
In reality though, there’d probably be less full time workers and more part time.
In reality though, there’d probably be less full time workers and more part time.
