Can employment policies improve a society's leisure?

The article discusses the contemporary policy debate on the effect of employment policies on a society's leisure. It cites that employment policies can improve society's leisure as the work-leisure relationship was the midwife of leisure. It mentions that leisure was first studied seriously as a sub-branch of the long arm of the job in sociology. It states that work fixes key parameters in society as a whole, and in the lives of individuals including the amounts of time and money available for leisure, and scheduling.