DPRK hanging a big banner over the DMZ that just translates to 9-5, benefits, time off.
South Korean capitalists have really committed national suicide. At this point the north just has to wait.
If dprk is not doing
commie propagandadezinformatsaya among the south korean youth, they are fucking up tbhiirc it is illegal to say anything positive about DPRK or socialism in Occupied Korea
but Kim instead
South Korea should really add Samsung to their name like it’s done with companies sponsoring metro stations in Delhi. The Samsung Republic of Korea is a very good name for the country.
Lockheed Goldman Chevron States of America
This is actually a reduction in the legal hours of work after a court ruling last year - from the linked article
The day before, the Ministry of Employment and Labor amended its administrative interpretation regarding extended working hours, following a Supreme Court ruling last December. The ruling determined that if the total working hours in a week do not exceed 52 hours, then working extended hours in a day is not illegal, regardless of the amount. As a result, it is now calculated that ‘21.5 hours of work in a day’ is possible, excluding a break time of 4 hours and 30 minutes, as long as the total weekly working hours do not exceed 52 hours, even if one works more than the legal working hours of 8 hours a day."
Wait so whats legal extended hours? Is it kinda like 52 hours legal without overtime pay (even with fucked 21 hour shifts), past that always overtime pay?
Or is 52 hours maximum limit, and this is fakenews
40 hours and 12 hours of overtime a week I believe, with 30 minute breaks every 4 hours.
So
- late last year, Supreme Court rules that the law restricting work hours per week doesn’t impact how hours a worker can be forced to work
- the current government has introduced an administrative ruling that says well 24 hours of work is silly, 21.5 hours of work is fine under the 52 weekly hour cap.
My understanding is that the effect of this is that you could
- start work at 9am on Monday
- come home at 6.30am on Tuesday
- start work at 9am on Tuesday
- come home 6.30am Wednesday
- start work at 9am on Wednesday
- come home 6pm on Wednesday
Then that’s all your hours done… Off to your second job
I had a supervisor a few years ago who claimed to have stayed on the clock for three days straight once, slept in a closet. I think this was part of explaining why he’d been yelling at me over things so minor his boss had to take him aside. He said they were very “not like that!” abt it but he got them recorded. Moral of the story: none. He would love this.
Please god, please kill hustle grind culture and send it to hell.
In weather emergencies I’ve heard of nurses working over 24 hours on the clock, though I’m pretty sure legally in the US they can’t force us to work more than 16 hours straight. Apparently my company used to pay people for sleep time when they were forced to stay there, but that ended. Frankly the amount of people I know that have worked regularly 16 hours every day for as long as I’ve known them at work is somewhat scary. 12 hour shifts in the hospital are pushing it, but you’re also getting 4 days off a week as a tradeoff.
Why even bother with restrictions at that point? You would think “We got rid of work hour restrictions but companies are full of reasonable people and definetly won’t make you work in your dreams.” Would be better optics then “Nah bro we aren’t the physical embodiment of what the average westerner thinks the Dprk is, we at least let you have a 2 hour break.” Fucking hell.
You have 2 and a half hours left to sleep, eat, bathe, relax, before your next shift, I’m sure you can fit sex in there somewhere.The most ridiculous thing is all the workers are probably doing all their eating, bathing, relaxing, most of their sleeping during their shift. They might have like 4 hours of productivity per shift. Longer shifts mean less work gets done, it’s well established
They’ll have to turn ‘child haver’ into a paid position within the republic of samsung at this rate.
Separate role from “child raiser” too
This is the “freedom” liberals were willing to wipe out 20% of Korea’s population for.
My brain skimmed over the “per day” part and assumed it meant 21.5 hours a week, and I thought that wasn’t so bad. 21.5 hours a day is literally going to kill people though. Like the human body actually cannot survive such a thing long term.
It’s not long term. If you read the linked article, it’s still 52 hours a week. This change just defines how those 52 hours can be distributed. So if a company really really wanted its workers to work the max hours a day for some reason it’d be 2.5 days of straight work and 4.5 days off. Which would still be miserable but significantly less absurd.
They straight up don’t care. SK is already in decline and the population has only two purposes :
- Serve Samsung
- Serve the Glorious and Free Nation that is the United States of America.
Rookie numbers, in the US there’s no limit. My company can legally give me a 28 hour shift, and if I worked in a red state they wouldn’t be required to give me a single 30 minute break either
There’s so many loopholes in American labor laws
I knew a guy who used to work at Amazon as a salaried coder. But on-call for 2 weeks every 6 weeks for the payment system of an AWS service in all of India. Every week on-call he’d get 20-40 pages and he has to respond within 15 minutes. In addition to regular working hours
Told me he would never get a full night’s sleep during on-call and once never slept more than 2 hours straight 3 days in a row
