“While the 40-hour work week is still officially in place, employers are permitted to require staff to work up to two unpaid hours per day for a limited period in return for more free time.”
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I don’t understand how legislators can look at the fact that their country already works longer hours than anyone else in Europe and conclude that the problem is that they aren’t working enough hours
They don’t. They get paid to sorta pretend enough to just make laws, and after enough horrible decisions, they retire with half the bank or die owning all of it.
Greece sounds like a hellhole.
Six-day work week. Get out of here.
Meanwhile, Japan is moving to 4 day weeks
Can you provide a source on that?
Japan historically has some of the most demanding work cultures in the world. This news seems wrong to me.
The hospitality sector is excluded from this regulation …
[wait for it]
… because the five-day work week was abolished there in 2023.
So what’s stopping the workers from saying no? If they have labor shortages then the job market should be favorable to the workers as you gotta be the most attractive employer, which would be those that don’t abuse that law and overwork their employees. It’s not like they can force people to work.
Or just go anywhere else in the EU.
Be me
American
See shitty right wing government doing shitty right wing things.
Sigh.
I bet I know who’s behind this.
Google the history of that government.
Greece was the first proxy war of the Cold war, with the US backing the Greek Monarchy, who were ultimately the victors.
We probably ran similar propaganda and right-wing violence campaigns there as we did across the global south.
What a fucking surprise.
Happy July 4th everyone.
