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Does she work more than 40 hours / week? If so, she very likely gets paid 1.5x for any hours worked above 40.

Do you think Apple and Foxconn are paying Indian women time and a half for hours above 40?

That said, I'm nearly 100% certain that these women would rather have these jobs working in a clean facility than the alternative.

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They have 48 h weeks and the ability to add an extra 50 hours per month.

There's a name for places with a 60 hour work week: they are called sweat shops.

Someone tell the people working at startups.

That's very different: startupers are generally capitalists, they either own the company or have vigorous stock compensation. They don't rent their work to scrape a meager existence, they compound their capital with the expectation of a large payoff and generally have the option of a job.

Although it's not great to need to work that much, you can make absolute bank doing overtime.

My mom's a nurse and occasionally gets called in out of the blue if there's shortages. If she agrees, she can get x2 to sometimes even x3 depending on what time and day of the year it is.

As much of a drag it can be getting woken up to work, she still gets excited when it happens because of how good the pay is.

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