• HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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    5 months ago

    This is actually a reduction in the legal hours of work after a court ruling last year - from the linked article

    The day before, the Ministry of Employment and Labor amended its administrative interpretation regarding extended working hours, following a Supreme Court ruling last December. The ruling determined that if the total working hours in a week do not exceed 52 hours, then working extended hours in a day is not illegal, regardless of the amount. As a result, it is now calculated that '21.5 hours of work in a day' is possible, excluding a break time of 4 hours and 30 minutes, as long as the total weekly working hours do not exceed 52 hours, even if one works more than the legal working hours of 8 hours a day."

    • plinky [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      Wait so whats legal extended hours? Is it kinda like 52 hours legal without overtime pay (even with fucked 21 hour shifts), past that always overtime pay?

      Or is 52 hours maximum limit, and this is fakenews

      • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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        5 months ago

        40 hours and 12 hours of overtime a week I believe, with 30 minute breaks every 4 hours.

        So

        • late last year, Supreme Court rules that the law restricting work hours per week doesn't impact how hours a worker can be forced to work
        • the current government has introduced an administrative ruling that says well 24 hours of work is silly, 21.5 hours of work is fine under the 52 weekly hour cap.

        My understanding is that the effect of this is that you could

        • start work at 9am on Monday
        • come home at 6.30am on Tuesday
        • start work at 9am on Tuesday
        • come home 6.30am Wednesday
        • start work at 9am on Wednesday
        • come home 6pm on Wednesday

        Then that's all your hours done... Off to your second job