Greece introduces the six-day work week

https://www.dw.com/en/greece-introduces-the-six-day-work-week/a-69439050

by yogthos

30 comments

  1. Pay people a living salary and/or hire more people?
    No, just make the slaves work longer hours…

    Workers in the tourist industry are already working with only 2-3 days off each month, don’t know about the construction sites. Good recipe for heatstroke and general exhaustion.

  3. So instead of looking up what counties in the north are doing and going for 4 day week they go for a 6 day….just wow

  4. Can someone email them and tell them that’s the wrong direction to be going with work days please?

  5. Everyone else: We should at least discuss 4-day work week

    Here in Greece: You definitely need to be a slave till you die.

    For those who don’t know, this doesn’t affect cafes/restaurants etc since they already have ridiculous demands and during summer season, in the islands, most people work 7/7, 12+ hours per day for minimum wage (per hour) (plus tips).

    Welcome to the southern hellhole which never recovered after the 2010 crisis.

  6. Six half-days a week, to deal with the rising heat right? Right?

    *checks article*

    Goshdangit.

  9. All the young people looking for a more fair deal will leave the country, meaning that Greece no longer has the taxes to pay for an increasing pensioner population, the economy will collapse again, meaning that even more young people will leave, the cycle continues.

    Unicorn economics. Selling out your own people economics.

  10. Huh, they say the justification for this is a lack of workers, but when I go to look at the data, it says unemployment in Greece is relatively high and wage growth is low, so lack of labor can’t be the real issue here. Can a Greek bro clue me into why this travesty of a law was passed?

  12. Somebody here on Reddit recently wrote that Greece is doing “better” now…

    At least their creditors can sleep soundly at night, knowing the Greeks are now literally slaving away to pay off their predatory loans along with crippling interest rates…

    I wonder when the general population around the globe is going to start to realize that the current economic systems are but the tyranny of money disguised as legislature.

  13. At least the 6th day pays 140% wages. That will discourage employers from using this every week.

  16. Plot twist: from now on there will only be one week per month

  18. They should be going the other way considering the temperatures in Greece( temps that will just continue to grow).

  19. How sad it is to see that so many countries are literally depriving generations of a happy life.

    I understand that governing a country is difficult, and the opinion of the majority or the decisions of individual people in power do not always lead to a good result, but still, is there really no way out of this situation?

  21. And it’s even worse than what the title makes it sound like.

    >While the 40-hour work week is still officially in place, employers are permitted to require staff to work up to two unpaid hours per day for a limited period in return for more free time.

    >In theory, this additional work is voluntary. In reality, however, workers in many businesses and workplaces are forced to work longer hours without receiving any form of compensation.

  23. Greece aka the Southern hellhole, it’s been shitty since 2010 and never got any better. I’m trying to migrate elsewhere

  24. Nobody let the Romanian authorities see this. Don’t want them getting any ideas.

  25. Thank the gods, i can now work 6 days instead of 7 i am working now /s

  27. Greece solving Germany’s qualified personnel shortage with one easy step.

  28. All around the Europe a 4 days work week is under test. In Greece instead of removing one day, they add it. LOL.

  30. Are they daft? Way to accelerate the exodus of their young and bright.

    Did they forget that the EU has freedom of movement?

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