• Franfran2424
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    https://fortune.com/2023/03/10/south-korea-69-hour-workweek-overtime/

    The government will also expand the maximum amount of overtime an employee can take a week to 29 hours, meaning a maximum workweek of 69 hours. South Korea’s government argues that the new scheme allows for greater flexibility, and expressed hopes that workers might work fewer hours overall

    On Thursday, South Korea’s labor ministry even tried pitching the new rules as a way to support the country’s flagging fertility rate, which at 0.78 births per woman is the world’s lowest. Ministers suggested that staff might work longer hours one week in exchange for longer holidays elsewhere in the year.

    Korean business groups have welcomed the plan, while unions and women’s groups have criticized the proposed rules.

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      which at 0.78 births per woman is the world’s lowest

      The actual birthrate genocide is done by the US to occupied Koreans

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      The Korean government does not know how babies are made, does it?

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          Oh is that what they’re saying? I fixated on the bit about longer holidays and thought, ‘Well, that’s not going to work.’

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            the plan is literally “work more some months, and procreate the extra month of holidays”

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          ey! we are just saying that if they want to work to death for some months to get one (1) extra month of holidays, they can do so!!

          they can procreate in that etxra month, and then work to death with the baby in them!!

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      meaning a maximum workweek of 69 hours

      On Thursday, South Korea’s labor ministry even tried pitching the new rules as a way to support the country’s flagging fertility rate

      We made your work week the funny sex number. Please fuck.