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How does it work with resting hours in the US? You also have a minimum for off-work time, no matter what work, right? For example in Austria it's 8 hours every day + 48 hours per week for most jobs.
Yeah no we don’t do that here. That’s considered socialism and stifling the right to labor all you want in America.
We’ve also been in the process of abandoning the 40 hour work week that our ancestors fought and died for with things like frequent mandatory overtime and unpaid lunch.
I actually had no idea some countries got guaranteed resting hours. I’ve worked 12 days in a row once and I was even in a union then.
Freedom, "unregulated" and anarchy are basically the same things, just from different perspectives. Honing selfishness ensures that you can easily sell shitty government with "freedom".
You are free to carry guns. Of course that also means you are less protected from other assholes who are also free to carry guns.
You are free to work as much as you like! Of course you also can be systemically forced to work more than you want, then.
I think there actually are requirements (I might be wrong) but it's just very often ignored.
I've at least had restrictions about how many days in a row I could work at every job I've had. That goes out the window though with multiple jobs
Lmao nope. In my state you cannot be scheduled more than 6 days in a row(for most jobs. Some jobs can go a full 7 out of 7) and employers are required to give one 24 hour rest period... but that's per job, not cumulative. If you have two jobs, the only thing stopping you from being scheduled 6 days a week at both and working at least one job every single day is if your schedules overlap, in which case you have to choose which job you like more because you'll probably be fired soon from the one you don't go to.
No such thing in the US. Each job may work you up to 40 hours per week. There is no limit if you have multiple jobs, because the limit does not apply between jobs. Most poor people in the US work multiple part time jobs.
There aren't any limits on working more than 40 hours either. Many jobs you'd be entitled to overtime, but there are millions of people who don't get overtime despite working it.
Yes but that’s actually illegal, so most jobs will not do it. Those who do are committing huge amounts of wage theft and tax fraud
There's no upper limit. Jobs can work you 80 hours a week if you let them.
This is literally not a thing, afaik.
LOL nope
Where I live, your employer cannot make you work than 9 hours a day or 40 hours a week without having to pay you overtime pay (at least 40 % more than ordinary hourly pay). If it happens regularly, the employer will get the Labour Inspection Authority on their ass.
Voluntary work is not allowed to exceed 13 hours a day, or an average of 48 hours a week within an eight week period.
Haha no, I’ve routinely gone weeks without a day off, post covid shutdowns it was several months of 7 days a week 10+ hour days “to help the business stay alive”. Currently my record for longest workday is 67 hours straight since we had a security incident I needed to stay and work on to limit damage, I’m not all upset about that one though, I’ll gladly do it again because fuck cyber criminals