Hospitals are a different story, but for the life of me I can’t understand why a factory would have to operate seven days a week to begin with. As a business owner I wouldn’t even open my doors on Sunday, let alone require employees to come to work.
Large industrial operations like paper mills run very inefficiently if they have to shut down and start up often. It is more efficient to operate 24/7 and pay overtime than it is to shut down and start up once a week.
An exception is a foundry that I worked at, they shut down every weekend. But foundries are VERY maintenance intensive, and the maintenance crews work seven days a week.
“Hospitals are a different story, but for the life of me I can’t understand why a factory would have to operate seven days a week to begin with.”
Some machinery/equipment never shuts down, it would be stupid to not be producing product part of that time.
A factory full of machinery that cost 500K-1 million or more each can’t set idle and pay for itself.
A bakery, foundry, steel mill, power plant, and many others never shut down.