 Well, first of all, thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain to you a bit how we, in Brussels, have one or even two projects running for a working time reduction. So I hope I'll be able to inform you a bit more about this. Now, first of all, I just have to share my screen to see how this works. Yes, it works. Perfect. So, I think you all know, even from hearing that the Belgian political system and even the trade union system is a bit complicated. So I thought I'd just explain you a bit just that I just inform you a bit of how our trade union system works. So that, so that you will be more able to visualize and imagine how we work here. So the next slide. Yes. There are three major trade unions in Belgium, which are historically corrected with the political philosophy, of course. So there is initially the Christian trade union. There is the socialist trade union and the liberal trade union. These are the three basic and biggest trade unions. And depending on the profession, there are also other trade unions, but specifically connected with the, with the, the profession of people are specifically specific trade unions in the military in the in the railway in the in the police force for instance, but I myself am a member of the historically socialist trade union. So the general work Federation of Belgium, we use a lot of a lot of words and symbols here but that's because we are officially a tree lingual country, Dutch, French, and German. And well, these are the names and symbols of our trade union in French and in Dutch. Our socialist trade union on a national level is the FGTB RBVV in French and in Dutch the general work Federation of Belgium. And I myself am secretary of the CGSP are COD, which is the general central of public services. So very inside this stage as they are COD the general central of public services of the sector of the local and regional entities, which consists of, which is responsible for 19 municipalities and social welfare centers public hospitals, inter municipal structure for police departments, different regional agencies. And the net brussel which is responsible for the cleaning the streets for instance, we are the biggest sector inside the COD CGSP of Brussels. Now about the region of Brussels. It's a small region there are three different regions in Belgium the Dutch speaking the French speaking and Brussels is a bilingual region Dutch and French. At the level there are more or less a bit more than you know if 11 million Belgians and in Brussels we are a bit more than 1.2 million citizens. One of the major, the major problems in Brussels is that there is an enormous youth unemployment. We mean people youngsters who are younger than 25 years old, the youth unemployment is just below 20%. I mean that's that's one in five that means just a bit less under 240,000 youngsters, people younger than 25 years on a scale of 1.2 million citizens. That's quite an enormous rate. You can see a map of Belgium on your left side we can see the tree, you can see the three different region flounders which is Dutch speaking well in your French speaking. So I'm a member of the Brussels region just the little dot in the middle, which is bilingual. And on the right screen, you can see in a small image of the 19 different towns. There are two towns in Brussels, which have implemented some degree of a working time reduction. The first town I'd like to talk to you about is the municipality of Sint-Josternode, Sint-Josternode. And you can see the little black dot there on the right in the middle of your screen, which is also the smallest municipality of the region of Brussels. Sint-Josternode, it's a very it's a small area so it's the smallest town of the 19 municipalities of Brussels, but it's an extremely densely densely populated area there are on a scale of 1.14 square kilometers, almost 27,000 habit inhabitants. And different studies have shown that we have the same population density as for instance the Indian city of Calcutta. So this is an enormous, it's quite a small town, but with an extremely populated, which is extremely densely populated. The population is also very young, 20% of these 27,000 inhabitants are less than 18 years old, but it's also the poorest population of Belgium, of the entire Belgian state. The town itself isn't really poor, but the population is very poor and so there is a lot of unemployment there. On a national level, our trade union has always since 30 or 40 years demanded the four day work week for all workers. So it's very important. We always speak about working time reduction, but we like to speak about a collective working time reduction. Why collective because for us it has to concern all possible workers in every possible profession. So we always defended the four day work week on a 32 hour level per week, 32 working hours per week, with the maintenance of course of a full pay of a full wage, and with additional recruitment of new people, new stuff, just to compensate the extra work. Why? Because just with, well, there is of course, it's no use to work less if you get paid less, or even if you maintain if you get the same wage, but if you have to do the five days work in four days. So people will, if you do this somehow in the long run or even in the medium run, you will get sick and you will fall in burnout. So we maintain the, we really want a collective working time reduction, but by maintaining of course the full wage, and by with recruitment of new stuff, new people, just to compensate the extra work. And just to compare this to these 32 hours per week, which we ask in Belgium, the general work week on a manual level is 38 hours, but there is legally a possibility to work up to 50 hours a week, but officially, and in general, we speak about 30, 38 hours a week. So, we've been asking for years to implement the collective working time reduction, of course, by maintaining the conditions that we maintain for a full wage, and that there are compensating recruitments on the workforce. And in 2017, the mayor of the small village of St. Yost and Ode invited us, invited the three trade unions for presentation, because he wanted to present his idea to implement the working time reduction, and we received a nice presentation which was called the beginning of a new utopia in St. Yost, I like the name. So he wanted to implement the working time reduction in 2018, but it took a bit more time, so we were negotiating for about two years, but not on a weekly basis. And so there are different working groups from 2017 till 2019 between the administration, the political side and the three trade unions. And since the beginning of this year on the first of January, the collective working time reduction was officially implemented. So it's still quite new, new and unfortunately we all know that the corona crisis came along and we don't have yet any statistics of what we know how people feel people are very happy, but we did, we don't yet have any official statistics, showing that people are officially less sick, for instance, we hope to get some next year. So about implementation since the first of January of this year, it is a collective working time reduction because it concerns all workers from all different jobs and professions available in the administration, without distinction, but from 55 years. So people who are less than 55 years, unfortunately, don't yet don't have the right to have a working time reduction, but of course we are working on it and each year we will bring the subject up. Well, of course our meaning is to lower the years, if possible. So it is in a certain way a collective working time reduction because it concerns all people of the administration, all different professions and jobs, but unfortunately yet from the year of 55. So compensation, so new stuff was recruited, 20% new stuff was recruited. On the political level, it was asked that whatever the cost was, the service to the public, of course, had to be maintained and it's normal because we defend the public service, so it's quite normal that the service to the citizens had to be maintained. On the political level, they also wanted in exchange that we would be working on internal papers to be able to work from home, to install data working. The basic idea and it's the same, there are the same arguments that we already heard before the municipality wanted to offer a better balance between work and family for all workers from 55 years onwards, of course. The workers, well it wanted the workers to be happier, of course there's a political reason behind it because happier workers are normally spoken less sick, or less in burnout, because they are more motivated, their productivity would increase. And of course by an increasing productivity, the citizen would also find out that people are happier and that the service to the citizen would increase to, and of course on a global level by recruiting new stuff, it would also diminish the unemployment rate in Brussels. At the municipal level, because we are always organized in at the municipal level and social welfare centers social welfare welfare centers are smaller than the town halls, but they work together they basically the same institution but two different employers. At the municipal level, more or less six, well there are more or less 600 workers, and so more than one on five workers were concerned, 121 workers were concerned at the time. And they recruited between 22 and 24 additional people, especially youngsters, just to be able to compensate the extra amount of work, since 121 people would work less, work four days instead of five. It would cost a bit, it would cost about 37,000 euros per job per new job recruited, and at an annual cost, it would cost 900,000 euros, but of course the basic idea is that it would be an advantage for the for the municipality because people would be happier less sick and in the long run. It wouldn't cost that many. So right now, unfortunately, we do not have any new figures, especially due to to the COVID crisis we don't really have actual figures to evaluate the collective working time reduction. But we just know when we speak to the tour, our members and the people that are extremely happy, and well, they feel much better than than before. And on the Belgium level, I already told you that the general work week was well counts 38 working hours a week. Historically, the town of Cynthia's already had a small working time reduction because people there were 36 hours a week instead of 38. And so right now with this working time reduction. People are workers are at 28 hours and a quarter working time a week. The program only speaks of the the municipality of Cynthia's to know that but I cheat a bit and talk to you about the other working time reduction, which is not a collective working time reduction. But another working time reduction on the level of Brussels, which is in a second town of Brussels is the little red dot. You can see on the left of your screen. This is quite a large town, the town of Underlecht. And so in Cynthia's to know the small town. It was implemented on the in January 2020, but in the town of Underlecht it was implemented in August 2018. It was just implemented on the level of the municipality, not on the level of the smaller social welfare centers, which we're still discussing with the political authorities on that. In the town of Cynthia's Cynthia's in the first new municipality people work less from the air, the years of 55 years in Anderlecht, it, it's beginning from 50 years. So each, well, most workers who are 50 years or elder, not 55. They have the right to to reduce their working time. But unfortunately, not unlike in the smaller town. It's not for all workers. So it's just basically for the toughest jobs, the physically speaking, the hardest jobs manual workers, people who clean the streets, who search the refuse in the streets. So it doesn't concern all jobs from 50 years onwards. It only consists of the physically speaking, the toughest jobs. In total, it concerns 250 workers, the total of 1500. And the system is a bit different because so in the smallest town, Cynthia's people just work one day less. But in Anderlecht, the political authorities just give 53 days. Well, they give 53 more days off a year to the people who have to the workers who have the most tough job. So it's a bit a different way of viewing. They don't necessarily officially work less, but they get 53 days off a year, 53 days off more than someone else a year, which is basically one day a week. There are also 45, five young people recruited just to compensate this extra work. People of course maintained their, their regular wage, as if they worked for five days. The authorities promised us that each year it would be possible to negotiate again to in order to increase the beneficiaries. Of course, in 2020 due to COVID once again, they didn't have financial means to increase the beneficiaries, but we hope that that more people will be able to work less in 2021. And so right now also we don't have any figures, unfortunately, in order to to to evaluate the impact on the well-being of the workers.