Fuck. That. Shit.
Why bother living?
I just don't care enough to "just be alive" if it's all spent working to make someone else rich.
this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2025
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"Allow"is carrying an awful lot of weight there.
Through the whole article this is all they can tell us?
The new legislation permits 13-hour work days, up from eight
Nothing about the real consequences, like how are the extra hours paid?
Instead we get anecdotes about people complaining this is bad. But what exactly about it is bad we don't know from articles like this that don't provide the most basic information of the actual consequences!
Here you can work 13 hours per day too, but the standard for a full time job is 37.5 hours per week, and the standard is important to get full unemployment benefits if you lose your job.
As I see it, the article contains no information about this apart from the part I quoted above. And it doesn't explain exactly why people are so angry about it. There must be more to it, than just "permitting" 13-hour work days?!
PS:
13 hours is also the max here (Denmark), as you are required to have minimum 11 hours of rest between workdays.
There are similar plans for Germany. I can only assume the Greeks hate it for the same reasons we do: among other things, we don't trust our employers to not subtly pressure people into "voluntarily" doing 12 hours.
The only places I've known here in Denmark to use this extensively, the benefits were very significant, like 50% extra pay, and double pay for extra hours in weekends and night hours, or you get normal pay plus an equal amount of hours off with pay. Which also amounts to double pay.
Using the people who know the job is better and cheaper than using employment agencies, even when you pay double.
So this is all about what the real consequences are, which is unknown to us because no journalist I've seen has asked anyone with actual legal and practical knowledge of the Greek work market.
Oh bother. Don't let Merz hear.
I don't think that vulture needs help doing what's worst for his constituents
I call BS on the idea that anyone works 13 hour days without a weird shift schedule.
You may be at work 13 hours, but you ain’t working. With your hands or your mind.
Its not an idea, many of us had worked 12+ hours for weeks even months at a time. It's horrible, sometimes its the only option