No it isn't the same. They don't work a 40 hour week.
No it isn't the same. They don't work a 40 hour week.
The length of the work week has absolutely nothing to do with being required to work an extra 'day' (in this case, an extra 7 hour day) and having the gov't confiscate the wages from that day. The fact that it was a paid holiday only makes it worse. By comparison, American workers generally expect to collect overtime pay for working on holidays.
Moreover, your statement implies that you think it would be OK for the gov't to force anyone who works less than 40 hours a week to work addt'l time & to confiscate all the wages earned beyond their normal working schedule. On the grounds that they didn't have anything else better to do with their time or money?