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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[+] 97 points 1 year ago
[–] 86 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Something only a general strike could fix

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  • [–] [S] 53 points 1 year ago

    The overime structure is very confusing here and correct me if im wrong but either way it doesn't look good

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago

    I know one line that'll go up: suicides.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Why are they learning from south Korea, you are not supposed to follow their example.

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    [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    That is fucking insane.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago*

    It aims to incrementally recreate servitude.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Test case for the austerity fallout from the ai bubble pop. A skeleton crew of peasant workers probably supporting a family to prop up a tiny rich class with more time and money than ever. It's the middle ages coming back.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Nah Greece is not in the AI race or any tech race for that matter. The country is still in the year 2005 tech-wise, for better or worse.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The owner class is testing their ability to roll back working conditions for the rest of us, starting in Greece and probably ending in France

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Anything to keep the slaves from having the free time and free will to dethrone you

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Greece workers should stroke country wide until nothing works, nothing.moves, and either they retract this or there will be more striking

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    the conservative government says.

    Aaaaaaand we know this is just about government mismanagement being fixed by having the common plebs pay with their lives. Who have the rich pay their fair share if you can just make the common workers work themselves.to death for too little money?

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  • [+] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)
  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    careful, one of the mods here is so triggered by that word they literally become mentally deficient.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Already removed by mod lol. Was the word "bro?"

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You can check the mod log (link at the footer of the website) but it was "retards".

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  • [+] -15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    Not the best pay for overtime, but it's just a couple of days ago that people here claimed there was zero compensation, as in they weren't paid for overtime at all. At least according to this edited headline that is NOT true. But I can't find that info in the article?

    And I still find it confusing that this is now "allowed". Does that mean it was not allowed to work more than 8 hours per day in Greece? As in overtime with a 40 hour work week was not allowed?

    No wonder then that their economy suck. That's extremely rigid, and especially small companies need to be more flexible than that to run efficiently.

    Actually allowing for more flexible overtime, will make it easier to later lower the standard work hours.
    I can see everybody is up in arms about how horrible this is, but if there really is pay for overtime, this seems like a much needed change, and not at all the horror show almost everybody here on Lemmy have claimed.
    Also there is nothing in these articles about allowing overtime, that show that an employer can demand it, as was also claimed by some previously.

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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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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Fta:

    The extended work shift can only be applied three days a month and up to 37 days a year.

    That doesn’t seem entirely unreasonable, but maybe there is something not being reported on here?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That doesn’t seem entirely unreasonable

    Of course it doesn't, you won't be personally affected by it, right?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I mean, no, but the rules in Scandinavia, which isn’t exactly a capitalist hellhole, are similar, I think? Norway, for instance, has

    10 hours overtime over a 7-day period 25 hours overtime over a period of 4 consecutive weeks 200 hours overtime over a 52-week period

    when there is a pressing need due to unexpected workload or the like. There’s also a 13 hour limit per day.

    There’s probably something I’m missing here about the labour market in Greece, though. Or Norway’s for that matter. Also the compensation should be higher ofc

    ETA: correct translation, additional thought, link to OT rules for Norway: https://www.arbeidstilsynet.no/en/working-hours-and-organisation-of-work/working-hours/overtime/

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  • [+] -23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Just steal more money from EU. I'm sure that will fix the economy.

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