The following report is by Euronews:
From July 2024, more businesses in Greece will be able to impose a six-day workweek on their employees. The measure applies to businesses that provide 24/7 services or those experiencing an extraordinary workload.
Under the new labour law, private sector workers could be going into the office six days a week, as the 48-hour workweek comes into effect.
Select industrial and manufacturing facilities, along with businesses offering 24/7 services, are eligible to extend the workweek beyond five days. However, food service and tourism workers are exempt from longer workweeks.
This change means an employee’s 40-hour workweek could extend to 48 hours per week.
The measure has sparked outrage among Greek employees, who argue it takes the country back to a time of limited labour rights. Many highlight that other countries are moving towards a four-day workweek.
Employees will receive 40% extra pay for their sixth day of work or 115% more if they work on Sundays. Despite this, many – especially the younger generation – prioritise their health and work-life balance which they argue the new law has the potential to jeopardise.
Economists point out that the biggest issue with the Greek economy is the productivity of working hours. According to data from the European Commission, nominal labour productivity per working hour in Greece is approximately 40% lower than the European average. Contributing factors include a lack of investment in new technologies, inadequately skilled human resources, and excessive bureaucracy burdening Greek entrepreneurship.
Eurostat data for 2023 shows that the average working week in Greece is 39.8 hours, the highest in the European Union, followed by Poland and Cyprus. The European average is 36.1 hours per week, with the Netherlands having the fewest hours at 32.2 hours per week.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Ecclesiastes 5:11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes? [12] The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. [13] There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. [14] But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
This is just absurd. So the burger boy is exempt from getting overclocked, but the physical and hardworking laboring man can now be forced to do more – at a time when everyone in Western society is facing a currency crunch of rapid inflation, and with all the exuberant number of taxes, which means that the take home pay is going to be a lot loss.
Then imagine on the backend you have institutions telling people “You’ll own nothing and be happy,” and eat cricket smoothies and be childless in a smart city by 2030. Boy, that’ll motivate them! And then out of touch washouts here in the U.S. wonder why longer people are checking out of society and reluctant to even really make an attempt when they know and see it’s futile (see above verses, notably verse 14 as to how it relates to today.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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The parasitic class does NOTHING other than scheme.
The burger boy, LOL, don’t forget the one on the fry shovel. It’s all about MONEY for the ones in control, the men who do hard labor want time to rest not work more, what good is money if ya don’t have time off to spend it.
I guess that Greece is trying to win GOD’s favor by doing the 6 day work week with 1 day of rest. If they want to do, work the first 6 days of the week and rest on the 7th day (The true sabbath day (we at obviously under grace)).
Huh? This has nothing to do with that. It’s rich slimeballs that are overworking a population to extort even more out of the common man as their purchasing power erodes.
That is true.
I agree with this because Greece has the Greek Orthodox, I wouldn’t put it past them to do this.