• duffman@lemmy.world
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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.

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      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.

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        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.

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    Greek employers cannot find the staff they need. Greek coastguard pushes migrants off boats into the sea.

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      in my shithole country we have %30 unemployment and 6-day work week. Also it’s all slave wages regardless of your degree or experience. It’s a corrupt shithole system that enables itself to keep on staying shit by exploiting poor people and getting the rich richer.

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        Um, you’re describing Greece plus or minus some unemployment percentage points.

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      Those migrants aren’t staying in Greece, they want to go somewhere with an actual economy

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          Because of European asylum rules. Those migrants have to be processed in their country of entry.

          Also, because they are racist fucks, who are paid to believe that Greece is being invaded.

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          They can cause issues while transiting through and they are required to give a shit because they’re part of the EU’s outer border control. And they might have fears of some of the migrants staying. I could imagine someone being in the coastguard cares about securing the border too even if there were none of the above issues.

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      This is a false dichotomy. Employers can’t find the staff they need at the wages they are willing to pay. Immigrants are the scapegoat, not the solution.

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        For employers it can also be a solution, since you can pay them whatever and trust that they can’t go to the authorities about it or won’t join unions and so on

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          That’s the point. Obviously having an ever expanding underclass that can be exploited with no risk is preferable to paying workers more.

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      Flawed. What jobs are Greece lacking workers for? Can the said migrants fill those roles while simultaneously getting integrated into the societal norms and customs?

      If yes. Cool.

      If no. Not a solution.

      I don’t agree to the pushing people into the sea. But one problem is not the solution to a different one.

      Quota migrants are the way to go. Human trafficking is bad.

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        Migrants don’t join unions. Which make them way cheaper. A very cool way for the owning class to exploit the workers and bypass any union/organized labour restriction.

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    I mean how does the government regulate this even?

    If I was a skilled worker, I’d tell the company I work 5 days or I don’t work for you …

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    That’s how you fuck up. Greece already had insane working hours, that doesn’t seem to be the problem.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    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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