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.
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.
Fta:
That doesn’t seem entirely unreasonable, but maybe there is something not being reported on here?
Of course it doesn’t, you won’t be personally affected by it, right?
I mean, no, but the rules in Scandinavia, which isn’t exactly a capitalist hellhole, are similar, I think? Norway, for instance, has
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/
There’s a lot not being reported, seems to me that every extra piece of info we get, makes this more and more reasonable, and a nothing burger IMO.