Generalstreik gegen den 13-Stunden-Arbeitstag bringt Griechenland zum Stillstand
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/01/general-strike-against-13-hour-day-brings-greece-to-a-halt
Von Canal_Volphied
Generalstreik gegen den 13-Stunden-Arbeitstag bringt Griechenland zum Stillstand
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/01/general-strike-against-13-hour-day-brings-greece-to-a-halt
Von Canal_Volphied
23 Kommentare
they are trying to implement a 13 hour workday? wtf is wrong with the legislature in greece, this is not a „general strike“, this is a societal immune response to lethal amounts of bullshit.
13h work day? What? We aren’t talking about that times 5 days right?
13 hours a day? 😐 Where the fuck are we? North Korea?
I don’t see the issue to be honest. If somebody wants to work 13 hours a day, why not let them? My understanding is you will be paid overtime for hours 8-13. Probably pretty attractive for students or people doing seasonal work.
It’s time to eat the rich I’m afraid. No fucking mercy.
Feudalism calling…
13 hours a day. Jesus Christ.
> The 13-hour day proposal is expected to be passed into law this month. The change would allow employees to clock in 13 hours, effectively extending their presence in the work place by up to five hours.
Will this change existing contracts and how will this affect new contracts? Or is this meant to raise the maximum working hours (basically overtime) only if really needed and the roof is burning?
For example in Germany the usual is 8hours at 5days. But you are allowed to work for up to 10h a day. With some rules regarding not to overuse this and how it must be compensated.
Bow to the very reasonable demands of your corporate overlords. /s
Typical left-wing hysteria. If you were to believe this rage baiting title, everyone would be forced to work 13 hours a day. Just read the comments. Hardly anyone read the whole article.
13 h workdays are already a standard in seasonal work i think soo theres that
Most of the world is trying to lower it, guys!
>Makis Kontogiorgos, a trade unionist from a major technology company, said:
“[….] *People can’t be pushed like this; at some point there’ll be an explosion.*”
Frankly, i think the word ‚pushed‘ is very much understating this.
Sounds like a sweet government. WTF is wrong with politicians, they just sit and talk and talk, how would they be holding up if working a real job for 13 hours.
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Look I’m all for social welfare, but I don’t understand why everyone in these comments is flipping out. It’s not like it’s normal full time working hours it’s overtime and cannot be used all the time.
Austria, which has amazing employee rights and employment conditions, has something similar with a maximum of 12h overtime allowed but over the course of 17 weeks the average weekly overtime can’t exceed 48h. Most people don’t work 12h despite that. People are overreacting like crazy.
Go komshu go. They must find other slaves to reach their ambitions. I wish we were that kind of culture. Here in Turkey people wouldn’t oppose if they make 20 hours work day. Some people even brag about it, like “I am very hardworking, working from 08:00 to 22:00”.
Huh, I am allowed to work 16 hours if I want to. And I am from Sweden that is supposedly pretty strong when it comes to unions and have rep for being worker friendly.
Power to the Greeks, doubt the politicians who want this will be working 13 hour shifts.
Good on organised Labour showing some force.
Sadly it won’t make a difference in Greece.
In Greece, it is common practice for employers to illegally and without recourse, do the following:
– for an employee to sign a document that they’ve receive the 13th month or their holiday pay in cash, and then not paying the employee but pocketing it.
– employees are often required to work a whole extra day, or many extra hours, without any additional pay
– salary is paid several months late. And this is if you have a ‚good‘ employer. A bad one can take 6 months or more.
– employees are fired on the spot, often for taking too much sick leave. Court cases take 5+ years and are expensive, leading many fired workers to not even try to get anything.
In sum: Greece is really MUCH further behind in employees rights than many Western Europeans think.
Sometimes I feel like 8 hour work days is too much. 13 hours is insane
Initially i thought it will be like, work till 11 then break 5 hours then work the rest due to weather extremes but 13 hours without a balance feels like abuse..i only heard in uk about a trial to do 10 hours days but work 4 days a week
General strike against FUCKING WHAT???