Man, if I still lived in an EU country and the government pulled this shit I’d be making the most of that sweet freedom-of-movement. Way to drive all the skills out of your economy.
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Legitimate question: aren't there barriers / hurdles to permanent residency still?
The barriers are your skills and language. Other than that, no.
Edit: some people move without permanent residency anyway. It has its' drawbacks.
Got it, that's all I meant. I thought there were requirements, it's not just "pack our bags, we're moving to Germany tomorrow"
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That's how you fuck up. Greece already had insane working hours, that doesn't seem to be the problem.
Greek employers cannot find the staff they need. Greek coastguard pushes migrants off boats into the sea.
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Better than South Korea's 69 hour work week
No wonder they're not having children if they spend all their time 69ing
That's even worse than China's 69 (six days, nine hours).
996 is the concept out of the Chinese tech industry I'm familiar with - from 9 to 9, 6 days a week, totalling 72 hours worked per week.
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Greece re-introduces the 6 day work week... It used to be the standard. Y'know, in the 18th fucking century
And the 19th, and a large part of the 20th too
Also, part of the 21st....
I'm 50 and I've worked 6-day weeks probably 90% of my working life which started at 14. Even before that, it's not like you actually got the whole weekend off. I was an honors student, there was always tons of homework.
At least your wife stayed home, right?
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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.
Wow.
I hope this is at least banking that time; you don't get overtime, but you can use that time later for paid time off.
Still sucks that it could be mandatory. I work in a government job in Australia and we have "Flexible Hours" which means that any time worked under or over the standard 7:30hrs per day counts towards a flex balance. Then we can use the excess flex balance to then taking shorter days or even take a couple days off if we have the balance for it. It works wonders for staff morale and retention.
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I hope so too, that has to be a very difficult situation for working parents to navigate.
Can they don't
Well that’s some backwards bullshit.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
After 15 years of recession and austerity and three rescue packages that came with tough conditions attached, labor in Greece is no longer strictly regulated.
Collective agreements have been frozen for years, and in many businesses, staff work on the basis of individual employment contracts.
Making sure that the authorities can do such monitoring tasks effectively is not a priority for the conservative government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Kazakos is in favor of collective wage agreements, which are, however, being increasingly limited by legislation passed by the ruling conservative New Democracy (ND) government.
The official reason for the introduction of the six-day work week is that there is a shortage of skilled workers on the Greek labor market.
The new Greek regulation on the six-day work week and the reduction in arbitration proceedings that comes with it are turning back the clock, Kazakos told DW.
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