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For Many Greeks, Six-Day 48-Hour Work Week Now Set to Begin July 1st
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this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2024
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The Greeks are insane for going along with this. Revolutions have started over less. Clearly their politicians no longer have the best interests of the Greek people in mind.
I don’t get something about the article. They are saying that there is a labour shortage so they need to do this but they also say that the employers have all the power.
Usually, a labour shortage means that the employees have the power so you’d have thought that they’d have been able to tell the employers to piss off when they try to increase their hours.
Yeah, that’s certainly one odd aspect. Also, there’s a ton of other methods to handle labour shortages. Like activating underused groups, such as women. Or offering retraining so people can switch to different jobs. And higher pay for sectors with shortages doesn’t hurt either, considering the already very low pay in Greece.
Running your existing workforce ragged is NOT the way to deal with this.
But hey, maybe we’re missing some cultural or political piece of the puzzle as to why they went this route.
@finishingDutch@lemmy.world @nogooduser@lemmy.world lol, you try to find logic. I'm Greek. This government almost constantly tries (and unfortunately manages..) to push measures using some very twisted logic. The main idea behind all these is that they are gonna profit from it. Also by keeping the people busy with work it's gonna make it less likely to act against the government or even socialize with other people, thus worsening any unity among the people. And they mask it as a good measure.
It's the same people who tried to convince us that bringing private universities will be good, again using their illogical logic. (They pushed this during the winter exams so that students wouldn't rise against, but fortunately the gov's actions were met with huge resistance. Still, even after all this they passed the law..)
This political party is trying very hard to dismantle Greece and take us years back years. And it's their second term in a row... It's their 5th year in power in a row and we have at least ~3 more years.......
Now it's fire season, you can watch us as Greece will soon be burning literary and the gov will ~only try to evaccuate areas and blame it to the people instead of being proactive against wildfires (or combating them with proper means).🥲
Every labor shortage is a capital shortage. If you compensate better for pretty much any job people will work them. It's employers trying to shift the blame, but if they want 500 widgets but can only afford to employ enough staff to make 50 widgets it's not the employees fault they didn't get an extra 450 widgets for free, labor doesn't work that way.