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.
They’ll have to turn ‘child haver’ into a paid position within the republic of samsung at this rate.
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.
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.
though I’m pretty sure legally in the US they can’t force us to work more than 16 hours straight
Unless your state licensing specifically precludes “mandatory overtime” from the definition of “patient abandonment,” this is unfortunately not true. Check your state’s rules here.
(I’m not a nurse, but my mom was, and I remember hearing about "patient abandonment " cases during Hurricane Katrina and being absolutely horrified at the way the system works.)
My understanding was mainly that they can keep you there especially during a crisis but otherwise can’t, which is correct in my state, though there’s no upper limit like others. Still interesting that a few months back my previous employer violated that law by forcing me to stay an hour over because they didn’t have staffing when they didn’t exhaust all options like the law states.
I would prefer the people giving me medical treatment be well rested. Where I am it’d my taxes paying for nurses and I’d really rather see them have decent lives and be in good shape to work while doing medicine than have an entirely pointless military. I’m Canadian, we can just use America’s anyway
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.
South Korean capitalists have really committed national suicide. At this point the north just has to wait.
If dprk is not doing commie propaganda dezinformatsaya among the south korean youth, they are fucking up tbh
iirc it is illegal to say anything positive about DPRK or socialism in Occupied Korea
did someone say Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul
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.
