Perhaps you didn't pay close attention. Yes, he said that people should work a 40 hour week. That's typically a five day a week job. However, he allowed as to how "two days in education or training" could be substituted.
Now, I've seen very many examples of "education and training" the government way. It's expensive and, in most cases useless. So we are trading welfare benefits to creating another "government training bureaucracy". Great.