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[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 27 points 3 hours ago

Welcome to 19th century workers' rights, Nepal. Glad you finally made it.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago

At least something positive!

[–] ol_capt_joe@piefed.ee 4 points 4 hours ago

Do you mean today* weekends, as in whatever today is, it's the weekend? No objection from me 👌

(But yeah, first line of the article said they used to only have Saturdays off.)

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 4 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Did they only have 1 day weekends prior to this?

[–] Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I wish I could answer that question, but I can't think of a single handy reference for information that I could check to get more information about OPs headline that they posted...

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 hours ago

If only there was even a single sentence shown here that could possibly answer the question! Alas, we may never know.

[–] subignition@fedia.io 5 points 4 hours ago

yes (it's literally the first fucking sentence of the article.)

[–] aninnymoose@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

You could read the article to get answer to your question but I'll answer the nuance that you might have been asking for as well. Nepal had a 6 day work week but still had 40 hour work week with sun-thurs being 10-5 and Friday being 10-3. This essentially makes the work week same as the US with 6 days, 9-5. Still 40 hours but needing to travel 1 day less to save fuel.