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Andrew Brown and Jacob Shteyman

Unions, business at loggerheads over four-day work week

The ACTU has put a four-day working week on next week's economic roundtable's agenda. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

Australia's productivity push should lead to shorter working weeks, unions argue in the lead up to an economic reform roundtable.

The ACTU has called for a four-day work week in sectors that can support it, arguing this will allow workers to benefit from productivity gains and technological advances.

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