The state [Karnataka] passed an amendment to its application of the factories act, which now allows for 12-hour shifts [up from 9], and the easing of rules for night-time work for women. The legislation increases the number of allowable overtime hours to 145 over a three-month period, up from 75, and caps maximum working hours at 48 per week [this is toothless].
Apple and its manufacturing partner Foxconn were involved in lobbying for a significant liberalisation of labour laws...There are “a lot of inputs" from industry lobby groups and foreign companies, including Foxconn and Apple, in the decision to amend Karnataka’s labour law.
An Indian state will allow 12 hour shifts, South Korea wants to increase the maximum working week to 69 hours (not nice) after increasing it to 52 just five years ago, and states in the United States are revoking child labor protections. How positively Chinese! :agony-soviet:
If the Foxconn and Apple factories in China have 12 hour shifts, what makes this framing bad?
Because the comparison makes bad working conditions sound like a foreign concept - something uniquely Chinese. These policies are being reintroduced by these bourgeois nations on their own accord. There's nothing Chinese about it. Also, the annual working time of China, India, and South Korea were pretty close in 2017 , so there's nothing uniquely Chinese about working long hours. There's also the fact that people love to use the worst examples of Chinese labor conditions to describe the whole country. Finally, journalists love to shoehorn China into everything to make their country look less bad. You can call it "saving face". :xicko:
Kinda off topic but whoa, I knew Germany has it better than we do in America but that's sort of a huge difference. Literally working ~75% as much as us. That's the difference between a 30 and 40 hour work week on average, although vacation days probably play a huge role
It might be coming to an end eventually. Back in November, the Minister of Labor of Bavaria proposed increasing the maximum allowed working hours to 10h/day, the CDU is led by a hardcore monetarist neoliberal and they are going to win the next election in a few years, likely allying with the classical liberal/Libertarian FDP and/or the Green Party, which is basically indistinguishable from the American Democrats nowadays.
Also, the working week in Germany is 40h, except for any industry involving metalworking. There the union IG Metall won the 35h working week in the 1980s.
Legally the maximum is 48h / week with 6 working days. That's fairly uncommon on paper though. As per how it plays out realistically, eh, who fucking knows, they axed literally everyone who's job it would be to check 30 years ago
That's bad, but compared to America I'm surprised because I didn't even know countries had limits to working hours in a day! And if they did, I assumed it'd be like 12 hours, goddamn my mom is working 14 shifts
Ah I thought that might be standard too but I wasn't sure, I guess vacation days is really the only factor at play. I was mainly speaking hypothetically, like if Germany had as little leave days as America then 1750 v 1350 hours a year would be the difference between a 40 and 30 hour work week
There's enforcement problems, of course.
I don't think this is trying to make China look bad though. This looks like a business website that calls this a "liberalization" of labor laws so they seem in support of this move.
Indian working culture is fucked and there is a lot of overtim for offices, I'm not sure what the factory scene is like. But it seems the specific factory rules are coming about since companies want to operate in India they have operated in China. The companies expect this because they've operated like that before
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:porky-happy: Hey kids, wouldn't it be freakin' epic to have a 69-hour work week? And how about a $4.20 hourly wage? Now that's "poggers"!