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Greece regresses to 13 hour work days with 20% overtime at 8-10 and 40% at 10-13 (www.reuters.com)
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Greece's parliament approved a bill on Thursday allowing private sector employers to extend working hours despite protests from workers already struggling from a cost-of-living crisis.

The bill, which allows employers to enforce 13-hour work days, up from the current eight hours, aims to make the labour market more flexible and effective, the conservative government says.

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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

20% overtime pay for the first 10 hours a week is ridiculously low. Time and a half is pretty standard. Even at over 10 hour shifts, it's not getting to time and a half.

If they doubled the percentages, I'd think it's fair. However, overtime should always be optional. There is a good argument for both sides to be reasonable, but requiring repeated overtime isn't overtime, any more, that's normal shifts.

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