Reduced Work Week and Compressed Work Week are a (relatively) new concept that some Annualised Hours Contract workplaces are doing

Reduced: You work 4 days of 7.5 hours, adding up to 30 hours weekly, you get paid the same as if you worked 5 days of 7.5 hours (37.5 hours)

Compressed: You work 4 days of 9.5 hours, adding up to 37.5 hours weekly, you get paid the same as if you worked 5 days of 7.5 hours (37.5 hours)

  • gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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    16 hours ago

    Keep forgetting that America has fucked up labour laws, UK and EU have that any lunch period longer than 15 minutes must be paid, and that you are mandated to have 30 mins lunch break every 4-5 hours

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      15 hours ago

      Lunch having to be paid is not an EU rule. It just happens to be that multiple countries in the EU have such rulings.

      In the Netherlands lunch can still be unpaid unless your union has agreed otherwise in the collective labour agreement.
      My job has unpaid lunch according to the employment contract (But thankfully they aren’t too picky about working exactly 8 hours in a day)

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        4 hours ago

        There is, but only for full time employment, part time get shafted

        Edit: huh, there isn’t, just is de facto true, even with shit pay jobs like supermarkets

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      16 hours ago

      Keep forgetting that America has fucked up labour laws

      And yet our scumbag “leaders” claim we have it “too good” and continue fighting against worker protections… I wish I could leave lol