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Re:Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds by Symbiote on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @11:45AM (#12735576)
It's the EU Working Time directive.

You can work longer for yourself, but not for someone else.

http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=706&langId=en&intP...

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Re:Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds by wott on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @07:22AM (#12742801)
But is not applied for everyone. In my country, it doesn't apply to engineers typically: the only limit is 13h/day, 6days/week, so that's a "limit" of 78h/week...
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