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Apple, Foxconn convince Indian state to loosen labor laws

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33 pointskristianp10 comments

Really sad about the extended work hours, but still happy about enabling women to work in late shifts.....dunno why this was not the case until.

Female safety issues, because it's India.

I'm game for this policy though - we need more late night women workers to normalize it in the culture, and also as a big "fuck you" to the enterprising rapists, perverts and chauvinists.

Not a fan of the longer work hours though.

How is that a big "fuck you" to them? More women to rape late at night? You think if they scream or call the cops they will stop the rapist? Doesn't work that way, even in the US.

The bad kind of folk, especially in India, see women as weak and to be dominated, and they revel in the fact that ladies are fearful to go out alone at night. The fear they impose on women is what feeds them, not some spur of the moment action.

And I clearly know you aren't from India, because women who work in remote factories are often ferried to and from their homes in buses for each shift. Or their families live within walking distance from the factories, as part of company housing.

The law itself was an honest acknowledgement that the state cannot protect women, especially in the late hours when there is no one else to intervene. So this state of affairs would need to change. It's not about any conservative view that women can work up to 8pm but not 11pm

Ok, y'all gonna have to explain this one. How is being forced to work a late shift a good thing for anyone? That labor law sounded to me like it was there to protect women given the context of the society they are in. The dangers for women, law enforcement capabilities, social education,etc... did not change. So less protection is good, because somehow being overworked 12h+ shifts is a sign of equality for women? I was expecting "outrage" against this lol.

You would think HN crowd would be for more labor laws that prevent companies from taking advantage of people and putting them in danger.

It's easy to convince middle class Americans of pretty much any evil thing as long as you frame it in one "progressive" idea or another.

The HN crowd are or think of themselves as owners of companies, not workers in them. I’m not even a little surprised the general attitude is anti-worker.

Very much so. I've learnt over the years that HN folk often regard 60 hour weeks as 'normal' and will defend to the death someone's right to voluntarily crunch even more over a long period of time as long as they get paid.

That's at least my perception of the crowd here, and it puzzles me.

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