More Contractors Shift to Four-Day Work Week
WC Monitor
9/19/2014
Two more of the major Hanford contractors switched to four-day work weeks starting this week. Employees are working 10 hours a day Monday through Thursday with Fridays off at Washington River Protection Solutions and Mission Support Alliance. Together they employ about 3,300 workers. CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. went to the four-day work schedule in February and Washington Closure Hanford has been on that schedule for years.
The remaining large Hanford prime contractor, Bechtel National, uses a combination of the same schedule for construction workers, but many office workers based in Richland, Wash., continue to work a schedule that comes to 80 hours over two weeks with every other Friday off. Washington River Protection Solutions polled its workers and then switched to the new schedule that was their preference at the Hanford tank farms. Mission Support Alliance switched to the schedule to be available when most other workers were at Hanford. It provides support services across the site.