Posted on 07/02/2024 9:41:27 AM PDT by algore
Greece has controversially introduced a six-day working week for some businesses in a bid to boost productivity and employment in the southern European country.
The regulation, which came into force on July 1, bucks a global trend of companies exploring a shorter working week.
Under the new legislation, which was passed as part of a broader set of labor laws last year, employees of private businesses that provide round-the-clock services will reportedly have the option of working an additional two hours per day or an extra eight-hour shift.
The change means a traditional 40-hour workweek could be extended to 48 hours per week for some businesses. Food service and tourism workers are not included in the six-day working week initiative.
The pro-business government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said the measure is both “worker-friendly” and “deeply growth-orientated.” It is designed to support employees not being sufficiently compensated for overtime work and to help crack down on the problem of undeclared labor.
Labor unions and political observers have sharply criticized the move.
A spokesperson for Greece’s embassy in London was not immediately available to comment when contacted by CNBC.
Workers in Greece work more than those in the U.S., Japan and others in the 27-member EU, according to data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Greek employees were found to have worked an average of 1,886 hours in 2022, more than the U.S. average of 1,811 and the EU average of 1,571.
“Greek people already work the longest hours per week in Europe. Now they may be forced to work a sixth day, after this Greek [government] decision,” John O’Brennan, professor of EU Law from Maynooth University, Ireland, said via social media platform X on Monday.
The were on vacation!
Workers in Greece work more than those in the U.S., Japan and others in the 27-member EU, according to data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
I doubt that...
Greek employees were found to have worked an average of 1,886 hours in 2022, more than the U.S. average of 1,811 and the EU average of 1,571.
Federal employees pretend to work, more hours, but look at a governmental program, you might see 4 people watching one person working... 🤓
Damn straight. We need to work more to pay for welfare, Medicaid, migrant cash cards …. I’m surprised the Greeks work more hours per year than the USA. I don’t work 1811 hours per year. That would be nice.
During the French Revolution they made a 10 day week. It didn’t work.
The 7 day weekly cycle originated by God at creation. There is no natural event that happens every 7 day cycle other than the Bible Sabbath in Genesis. It is God’s exclamation point on his perfect creation. And nobody can change a day he made holy.
Many are confuse the weekly holy Sabbath which predates sin, with the other ceremonial sabbaths, annual, feasts, etc that came after the fall. Those were shadows pointing to the cross and were abolished at the cross as were all ceremonial laws, shadows.
The moral law in which the Sabbath is at the heart of to reveal the sole arbiter of right and wrong....namely God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit...can never be changed one jot or tittle. Otherwise Christ need not die to atone for it’s transgression. He could have merely edites, amended, or done away with the law.
Had man never fallen ,he would still be keeping the blessed Sabbath the 7th day Sabbath. Adam, Eve, on down. Jesus said the Sabbath was “made for man” in Mark 2. Adam literally means man as in mankind. It predates the jew by thousands of years and is a sign between God and his people which are now anyone who calls on the name of Jesus.
There will be Sunday keepers in heaven....probably more than those who kept the 7th day Sabbath because they went by the light they had. People used to keep Sunday as a holy day. But now dispensationalism has managed to talk themselves out of the holy day all because of the Sabbath. And look at society........when the holy day goes, the church goes and when the church goes, the family goes and when the family goes, society goes and the demons rule. They are ruling.....
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