The state [Karnataka] passed an amendment to its application of the factories act, which now allows for 12-hour shifts [up from 9], and the easing of rules for night-time work for women. The legislation increases the number of allowable overtime hours to 145 over a three-month period, up from 75, and caps maximum working hours at 48 per week [this is toothless].
Apple and its manufacturing partner Foxconn were involved in lobbying for a significant liberalisation of labour laws…There are “a lot of inputs" from industry lobby groups and foreign companies, including Foxconn and Apple, in the decision to amend Karnataka’s labour law.
Kinda off topic but whoa, I knew Germany has it better than we do in America but that’s sort of a huge difference. Literally working ~75% as much as us. That’s the difference between a 30 and 40 hour work week on average, although vacation days probably play a huge role
It might be coming to an end eventually. Back in November, the Minister of Labor of Bavaria proposed increasing the maximum allowed working hours to 10h/day, the CDU is led by a hardcore monetarist neoliberal and they are going to win the next election in a few years, likely allying with the classical liberal/Libertarian FDP and/or the Green Party, which is basically indistinguishable from the American Democrats nowadays.
Also, the working week in Germany is 40h, except for any industry involving metalworking. There the union IG Metall won the 35h working week in the 1980s.
increasing the maximum allowed working hours to 10h/day
That’s bad, but compared to America I’m surprised because I didn’t even know countries had limits to working hours in a day! And if they did, I assumed it’d be like 12 hours, goddamn my mom is working 14 shifts
Also, the working week in Germany is 40h
Ah I thought that might be standard too but I wasn’t sure, I guess vacation days is really the only factor at play. I was mainly speaking hypothetically, like if Germany had as little leave days as America then 1750 v 1350 hours a year would be the difference between a 40 and 30 hour work week
