JohnEdwa

Technically it would, as the law change is to allow 13 hour days, not to force them. Same as the previous one that allowed six-day work weeks.

I’m assuming it’s similar to how it’s here in Finland, where the law generally limits work days to 8 hours and a maximum of 40 hours a week. Changing those legal limits wouldn’t directly cause anyone to have to do more work, but it would now be legal - Finland has a few exceptions to it as well, some jobs have the limit be 80 hours per two weeks for example to allow longer/more days crunched together.

If it’s combined with a limit, like “The law now allows up to 13 hour days or six hour work weeks as long as it’s under 40 hours a week”, then in theory it’s a good thing - being able to choose anything between 13h x 3d and 7h x 6d depending on what works best for the job would be useful. The problem obviously is “Hey, you are fine with 13 hour days six days a week right? Oh you aren’t? Well there’s the door we’ll find someone desperate and stupid enough to replace you.”

Friday is a workday, saturday morning is spent recovering, and sunday you have to plan so that you can go back to work on monday morning. You get your one free 24 hours split between saturday and sunday. Yay…

Shockingly, boycotts don’t work if the actual customers don’t take part in them. Companies don’t care about your feelings, they care about money, and “I’m never buying a thing because of reasons!” doesn’t matter if you weren’t about to buy one in the first place.

But he continues paying random women to have his kids because they all start hating him after a while, and apparently 13 tries hasn’t been enough for him to notice the one thing in common with all of them.

That’s a standard shift for the majority of nurses and doctors. Which is (should) then be compensated by working only three days a week. For some jobs and people it works wonderfully - you have less commute time and four entirely free days every week.

The extreme case are firefighters, one 24 hour shift every four days. Unless shit hits the fan and then all bets are off - you don’t exactly walk away from a forest fire because your shift ended a minute ago.

But Greece wants to allow up to 13 hours 5 days a week, which if actually done would burn people up ridiculously fast.

Alternative platforms always start with the people that aren’t welcome in the old ones - Lemmy was literally originally made as a communist safespace:

Fuck the white supremacist Reddit admins, want me to set up a self hosted one for /r/communism?
Hey all, longtime Marxist-leninist, recorder of left audiobooks, and megathread shitposter here.
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So I’ve spent the past few months working on a self hostable, federated, Reddit alternative called Lemmy, and it’s pretty much ready to go. Unlike here we’d have ultimate control over all content, and would never have to self censor.
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Raddle isn’t an option obviously since it’s run by this arch anti tankie scum, ziq.