Re:EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019
by Hunisgung on Monday September 17, 2018 @03:41PM
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In France, the norm is to start work three/four hours before noon and finish six/seven hours after noon (and of course do stuff after work but not before). If we stay on winter time, I can say goodbye to sunlight for most of the year.
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Re:EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019
by EpicEng on Monday September 17, 2018 @04:03PM
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>In France, the norm is to start work three/four hours before noon and finish six/seven hours after noon
You work 9-11 hour days? Doesn't france have a legally defined 35 hour work week and other, fairly stringent laws re max hours / day?
Re:EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019
by Hunisgung on Monday September 17, 2018 @05:32PM
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The 35 hour work week is mostly implemented by getting additional vacation (on top of the base 25 days off) and (at least for engineers) some contractually agreed overtime (that is already included in the yearly salary you negociate).
For example, I have a legal 35 hour per week contract with 38h30 of work per week, the difference being compensated by about 15 additional days off and the rest paid in overtime.
Where I work (large private company) working from 9 to 18/19 with a good hour of lunch break is quite standard (with administrative people tending to work more form 8 to 17).
Re:EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019
by user5994461 on Monday September 17, 2018 @04:07PM
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It's 35 hours excluding a 2 hours lunch break, for example 9-12 14-18.
Re:EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019
by tonfa on Monday September 17, 2018 @05:40PM
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Most qualified jobs have a 39h/week contract (with extra vacation day to compensate), and among those people many seem to do much more with no extra pay (without realizing they actually get a pretty shitty pay for the amount of time they stay at work).