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This is about labor rights. If you're paid for 40h your employer should not be able to press you to do more without compensation. Easy as that. If the added wo
by pergadad 7y ago
This is about labor rights. If you're paid for 40h your employer should not be able to press you to do more without compensation. Easy as that.
If the added working time has much value they'll find a way to compensate. This way it simply means that you can't force a fastfood worker to do closing shift and then still clean after they've done their work.
Outside of the pure "pair of hands" work there is a lot of evidence that more working time doesn't increase productivity.
And, really, life is about more than just work. No need to allow companies to slowly erode the rights previous generations of workers have fought for.
- ovi256 7y agoYes, there is clear tension between labor rights and labor competivity, that's clearly established.
- lima165 7y agoThis is not about labour rights. In Spain at least, it is about the government making cash via labour taxes (as an employer, you must subtract a percentage from the employee's wage to pay for social security). As the taxes are so high, many employers resort to hire employees officially for 4-6h and under the table they pay them the remaining time free of taxes. Most companies here have less than 10 employees, they just can't cope with the high taxes, and the alternative is not hiring at all. Now this new law in Spain means nothing for employees. The govt just forces employers to have an accurate time log they can inspect at any time to make sure they are paying labour taxes. THEY WONT CHECK AT ALL THAT THE EMPLOYEES ARE BEING PAYED THAT NUMBER OF HOURS. Guess what, exactly 4h will appear for every employee in the log. There is no official approved system for time tracking, it's up to the employer, with even an excel being accepted, so it is absolutely manipulable by the employer.