Senior's last day: four-day work week and exploitation in Russia

The paper tries to answer a question, Whether the recent regulatory action taken (worklife expansion) or proposed (workweek reduction to 4 days) by the Russian government is meant to affect workforce composition or to serve the interests of employers by exposing wage level to additional pressures. I argue (1) that the newly enacted law was (implicitly) motivated by reference to the formal composition of demographics instead of actual composition of workforce, (2) that the workweek reduction initiative is aimed at the suppression of legally fixed hours of work only, without affecting the actual time worked, (3) allowing the government to manipulate their calculations of productivity and report its successful enhancement. I come to the conclusion that the aforesaid regulatory action serves monetary and bureaucratic needs, being a piece of class legislation.