That's bullshit. In Austria (similar to Germany and Switzerland in many regards), plenty of small specialized privately owned companies are actively fighting to

That's bullshit. In Austria (similar to Germany and Switzerland in many regards), plenty of small specialized privately owned companies are actively fighting to erode worker's rights (greed has no culture and knows no borders). A couple o years ago, local industry lobby groups got the government to legalize the 12h workday and one top company I interviewed for had a time punching device next to the coffee machine so that employees could punch out during a coffee break as the company considered coffee breaks as non-working time for the employees and did not count to your 8h/day working time, just like your lunch break.