Greece’s parliament approved a bill on Thursday allowing private sector employers to extend working hours despite protests from workers already struggling from a cost-of-living crisis.
The bill, which allows employers to enforce 13-hour work days, up from the current eight hours, aims to make the labour market more flexible and effective, the conservative government says.
20% overtime pay for the first 10 hours a week is ridiculously low. Time and a half is pretty standard. Even at over 10 hour shifts, it’s not getting to time and a half.
If they doubled the percentages, I’d think it’s fair. However, overtime should always be optional. There is a good argument for both sides to be reasonable, but requiring repeated overtime isn’t overtime, any more, that’s normal shifts.
According to u/unpossom that’s not possible, they can only do it 3 days per month.
And it’s a heck of a lot better than zero as was claimed in previous posts about this.