As rise of Chinese e-commerce platforms adds to pressure, having Sundays off remains protected under Germany’s Basic Law
Gut so! As it should be, we don’t need to exploit the worker more to become a strong economy we need to tax the fucking rich and stop the far right from blaming everyone. I hate this pro-capitalist sentiment that the worker is working too little. MERZ LECK EIER
How does shopping on Sundays exploit workers?
The exploitation happens mostly passively:
- While technically nobody is forced to accept jobs that require working on Sundays most people are not in a position to negotiate such hard requirements.
- Having a common mandatory day off is a quality of life improvement. Want to schedule a party with friends? The vast majority of people have Sunday off.
On top of that only bigger stores will be able to hire people to work Sundays, while the local smaller shops would have to compete with paying more wages while the total amount of money spent in a month stays the same. People don’t get to spend more money on stuff just because the stores open more frequently.
While technically nobody is forced to accept jobs that require working on Sundays most people are not in a position to negotiate such hard requirements.Maybe, but as far as I know, Sundays are paid more. And normally is not every Sunday, you alternate with your coworkers.
Having a common mandatory day off is a quality of life improvement. Want to schedule a party with friends? The vast majority of people have Sunday off.There already are people who work on Sundays/Holidays: they are paid more (the double in Italy, for example) and then they have a day off some other day in the week.
And for the party with your friend you only need a little more planning, it is not impossible.Maybe, but as far as I know, Sundays are paid more
Do you think this stays the same as it now if Sunday becomes just a regular working day? I highly doubt it.
There already are people who work on Sundays/Holidays
Indeed there are. That’s why I wrote “the vast majority” and not “everyone”. Just because there are exceptions to the rule we shouldn’t simply abandon the rule, though.
Do you think this stays the same as it now if Sunday becomes just a regular working day? I highly doubt it.
If it is a normal working day you somehow should be given a day off some other day (Monday for example).
In this case I agree that probably you would not be paid more but on the other hand you still have your day off (and sometime it can be usefull to have the day off in the middle of the week). If they simply want to let places to be open also on Sunday then it is overtime and you can be paid more or earn an additional day of PTO.Indeed there are. That’s why I wrote “the vast majority” and not “everyone”. Just because there are exceptions to the rule we shouldn’t simply abandon the rule, though.
Sure, but it not impossible to discusse about a rule change.
That’s a very good point!
The South China Morning Post is a media outlet under the direct control of the Chinese Communist Party’s censorship regime. All they want and to is conveying Chinese government propaganda, sowing division and hatred in Western communities.
The Tardigrade is a very right wing account similar to @randomname@scribe.disroot.org and @Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org with the clear, but very questionable agenda to spam specific European communities with posts and „informative“ commentary, which incidentally almost exclusively targets China and Russia as enemy nations, and the occasional other stuff, that goes against European capital‘s interests, as for example, currently by posting against the left-wing government of Spain, as Spain‘s government has been working against the grain recently. All they want and do is manufacture consent and sow division and hatred in Western communities.
The Chinese Communist Party wants to manifest its rules everywhere, this is part of its propaganda that pops up once in while in Europe and beyond.
Last year, British media outlet The Independent warned asking, The 996: Is this dystopian work trend coming to the UK next?, warning that the toxic practice has already made the leap from China to America’s Silicon Valley.
Some Silicon Valley AI startups are asking employees to adopt China’s outlawed ‘996’ work model, as reported by outlets like Forune.
Techcrunch reported, As China’s 996 culture spreads, South Korea’s tech sector grapples with 52-hour limit.
The ironic bit in my opinion here is that Chinese propagandists frequently criticizes Western labour standards and workers’ rights, but thennot only defend Chinese labour politics where worker protections (and social welfare) lag very far behind any Western norms but also support the export of this ‘996 culture’ into Western economies.
If you ever wondered, how western propaganda on social media works, here‘s an example.
I’m pretty sure you’re already allowed to keep your business open 24 hours a day, 6 days a week + some Sundays per year. But for some reason, nobody does it. Truly a mystery 🧐.
Does this include big supermarkets?
First of all I’d like to say that I haven’t studied German law and what I’m telling you is secondhand knowledge I got from someone who actually studied German law and had to deal with the issue of working on Sundays.
As far as I know there’s nothing special about supermarkets in this case. But I’ve also never seen a supermarket that’s open 24 hours a day or one that’s open on those special Sundays (at least in recent years).
I also don’t think they would open on Sundays, even if they were allowed to (the same goes for the post office and pharmacies), because you have to go there anyway. So staying open longer just means higher costs. Vending machines and lockers probably offer everyone a greater benefit than being open on Sundays, because as far as I know, they’re allowed to be “open” 24/7.
