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Re:Amazon’s business model meets Sweden’s labor unions by matsemann on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @04:11AM (#24129652)
Good luck with Sweden's one hour lunch break. And the fika breaks every hour as well. Sorry Jeff, no forcing workers to pee in bottles among the shelves[1] in Sweden to drive up the stock price. I hope the Nordic countries wont bow down to Amazon's exploits.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17243026/amazon-warehouse...

Re:Amazon’s business model meets Sweden’s labor unions by progre on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @04:23AM (#24129708)
Well the lunch break is not work time in Sweden so if you have a 1 hour lunch you just work longer in the afternoon. 30 minutes lunch (scheduled to fit the shifts) has been the norm when I have done blue collar work. I don't know anyone who has fika every hour. 15 minutes breakfast break and 15 minutes in the afternoon (on the clock) is normal.
Re:Amazon’s business model meets Sweden’s labor unions by aucontraire on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @06:27AM (#24130402)
You are entitled to 5 minutes (paid) break per hour worked in a shift, which the employer has the right to consolidate in various (but not endless) ways. This is on top the right to a lunch break which has separate rules. I think that both of these are is in the labour law and not allowed to substantially re-negotiated. (Many things across the various labour laws are explicitly allowed to be overridden by CBA).