Gut so! As it should be, we don't need to exploit the worker more to become a strong economy we need to tax the fucking rich and stop the far right from blaming everyone. I hate this pro-capitalist sentiment that the worker is working too little. MERZ LECK EIER
Germany’s drive to compete with Chinese imports is colliding with its long-standing tradition of Sunday rest
Isn't having Sundays off protected by law in all of EU?
Saturday too for that matter, except of course it doesn't have to be those 2 days, but we generally have 2 days off per week, and working Sundays pays extra.
This seems like a very ignorant understanding of working conditions by a Chinese person.
EU will not make conditions worse, more likely China will improve conditions for workers, so the insane work weeks of 60 hours will become outside the norm in China just as in most of the rest of the world.
There are already movement among Chinese people to strive for a better work/life balance.
The article however does have a point that shops not being allowed to open on Sundays seems a bit antiquated. The headline however and the start of the article is way way off. Opening shops on Sundays will not increase German international competitiveness significantly.
Isn’t having Sundays off protected by law in all of EU?
I think it does not cite specifically Sunday but that you need to have a day off a week
Saturday too for that matter, except of course it doesn’t have to be those 2 days, but we generally have 2 days off per week, and working Sundays pays extra.
Or you make up for the working Saturday on some other day.
For example in Italy shops are closed half a day on Monday (groceries shops open only in the morning while other open only in the afternoon) exactly because they work on Saturday. Some kind of shops still close on Monday to balance the Saturday opening (barber shops for example).
And yes, normally here Saturday is paid 50% more and Sunday 100% more. Sometimes you can choose to have the day not paid but to earn an extra day of PTO to use when you want. I know more than few persons that work on Sundays to have some more days for the holidays (even though there are a limit imposed by law to the number of Sundays you can work in a year)
Also try to avoid scmp. it's owned in part by CCP.
Totally agree! We prefer only not state-owned and therefore unbiased outlets like BBC, Euronews, Deutsche Welle and the Kyiv Independent here. Every media piece originating from China or Russia is evil propaganda, beware! Not ours, though!
I repeat: Do not consume Chinese or Russian media, it will fry your freedom-brain and transform you into Putin trolls, dictatorship lovers and genocide excusers! Also, we think you’re unable to critically consume outsider-media by your own consideration, probably because you’re too feeble-minded. Just don‘t, we‘ll be real mad at you, if you do!
Also, don‘t share media sanctioned by our democratic supranational institution EU, not because you‘ll get jailed for up to 5 years for it, like in some evil authoritarian regime, but because it‘s evil propaganda, as our leaders said it is!
No need to be so toxic just for not agreeing with someone's view, is there?
Look at their instance friend and you'll see your words fall on an automated metalic scanner
Got an argument? I‘d post the same shit from any other instance and it‘d still be a valid opinion.
No need to play the victim card so early in the day.
Also, you, if it's media you approve:
Your behaviour is stalking posts in this community for político. linking your post about its petition. But your petition got a balanced and nunaced response with pro and contras.Abolishing newssources is.just too weird.Its something autocrats might do. Stop this weird behavior already. A
No need to be so toxic just for not agreeing with someone's view, is there?
Your behaviour in this community explicitely nurtures division and hate towards other ethnicities by constantly reinforcing enemy stereotypes.
The Chinese Communist Party wants to manifest its rules everywhere, this is part of its propaganda that pops up once in while in Europe and beyond.
Last year, British media outlet The Independent warned asking, The 996: Is this dystopian work trend coming to the UK next?, warning that the toxic practice has already made the leap from China to America's Silicon Valley.
Some Silicon Valley AI startups are asking employees to adopt China’s outlawed ‘996’ work model, as reported by outlets like Forune.
Techcrunch reported, As China’s 996 culture spreads, South Korea’s tech sector grapples with 52-hour limit.
The ironic bit in my opinion here is that Chinese propagandists frequently criticizes Western labour standards and workers' rights, but thennot only defend Chinese labour politics where worker protections (and social welfare) lag very far behind any Western norms but also support the export of this '996 culture' into Western economies.
I'm pretty sure you're already allowed to keep your business open 24 hours a day, 6 days a week + some Sundays per year. But for some reason, nobody does it. Truly a mystery 🧐.
Does this include big supermarkets?
First of all I’d like to say that I haven’t studied German law and what I’m telling you is secondhand knowledge I got from someone who actually studied German law and had to deal with the issue of working on Sundays.
As far as I know there's nothing special about supermarkets in this case. But I've also never seen a supermarket that's open 24 hours a day or one that's open on those special Sundays (at least in recent years).
I also don't think they would open on Sundays, even if they were allowed to (the same goes for the post office and pharmacies), because you have to go there anyway. So staying open longer just means higher costs. Vending machines and lockers probably offer everyone a greater benefit than being open on Sundays, because as far as I know, they're allowed to be "open" 24/7.
The South China Morning Post is a media outlet under the direct control of the Chinese Communist Party's censorship regime. All they want and to is conveying Chinese government propaganda, sowing division and hatred in Western communities.
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