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If I'm following the numbers correctly it seems to functionally come out at max of ~60h/week where ~12 of that would be at an overtime rate. Not sure what that compares to before but it sounds like an increase in both base and overtime limits. Interesting the night shift wasn't allowed for women before.

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Previous was max shift of 9 hours and max overtime of 75 hours per three months. Now it is 12 hour shifts with 145 hours of overtime per three months.

So yeah, this comes at 5x12 shifts.

A point of comparison - in Norway employers need special dispensation to have workers work more than 100 hours overtime per year (with max 40 regular hours/week and five weeks paid vacation time).

I mean worker rights in Scandinavian countries are rather the exception.

Scandinavia, especially Denmark, are known for having few labor laws. That's the point of the Danish model: few workers' rights

True, but Norway is an oil nation.

Denmark, Sweden and a bunch other countries in Europe that have similar rules (probably lower pay though...) are not.

I believe that after a period of strong Norwegian krone - we're now back to normal, and pay is generally better in Sweden and Denmark.

yeah, interesting. Sweden is pretty close to Norway but Denmark is considerably ahead of Norway. Doesn't seem that a high GDP correlates than much with higher salaries in Norway's case (unlike in Switzerland)

So is Qatar. (apparently 48 hour week / 8 hour day - two weeks of vacation - overtime to be compensated 25% - unsure about limits?)

> The legislation limits the maximum workweek to 48 hours, but also increases the number of overtime allowed to 145 over a three-month period from the previous 75 hours.

A 5x12 shift would require 1/5 of the time to be classified as overtime. Indian labour laws seem to state that overtime must be paid at 2x regular wages.

Almost seems like it would make sense to hire more people and have them work 4x12?

It depends on the benefits, taxes, training they pay for the incremental employees if it's worth it to plan for overtime or hire more people. Foxconn is a massive operation making a tiny profit margin thru contract manufacturing so if they're doing it this way, it probably makes sense for them.

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