Interesting! This one keeps the 7-day week, which means it has a chance of succeeding. But wouldn't inserting an entire extra week every few years cause problems with things like monthly salaries and mortgage payments?

The financial year assumes 30 days per month, 12 months per year, 360 days per year. That’s what’s the basis for your salary calculation.

Indeed I'm paid the same amount every month. Yet I'm paid on the same day of every 28/29/30/31-day month, i.e., with slightly varying intervals. The differences between the months are currently small enough that it doesn't really matter much, and it always evens out the next month. But if suddenly a wild week appears, I will want to get paid for that week. Either that, or everyone will need to keep to a parallel traditional month system for periodic payments.

As far as I know, I am paid for those 31st days, but the pay is evened out over the year. You may live in a different country than me. It is actually pretty presumptuous of you to claim that you know on what basis my salary is calculated, unless you have comprehensive information about the entire Western world.

I have expenses during that week. I happen to earn enough to be able to save a bit during the rest of the year, so it won't be a problem for me, but not everyone has that luxury. There is no reason to make life harder for hard-working poor people. Also, entrepreneurs/employers are earning money that week, so it won't be a problem for them to pay.

If you are paid monthly, does your wage differ from January to February?

If no, then you do not get paid for these days directly, and you won’t get paid for the leap week.

If yes, well, then you’d also get paid for that leap week.

You don't give up, don't you? As far as I know, my salary is based on slightly less than 30.5 days per month. Anyway, that was not my point and I don't care about that.

You are not addressing my real argument, which maybe originally I did not articulate in a way that you understood. Which is that in the proposed calendar, unless special arrangements are made, at some point people will have to wait 37 days for their salary and will only get ~30 days' salary at that moment. That is the thing that's currently not much of a problem. Whether that gets resolved by reducing the salary over the normal months by a small percentage and introducing an extra payment for that week, or by spreading out the payments over a 30/31-day schedule that ignores the new official months (which I think would be confusing and complicated), or by some other method, I'm fine with that. I did not say I wanted extra money, but it needs to be spread out evenly over the year.