Exhausted employees don’t want it – so why has Greece introduced a 13-hour work day?
- Written by Elena Papagiannaki, Lecturer in Economics, Edinburgh Napier University
Hospitality workers are likely to be hit hard by the law.Mulevich/ShutterstockThe Greek government has passed a law allowing private employers to extend shifts to 13 hours per day, framed in terms of “flexibility” and “growth”. It’s marketed as voluntary and fairly paid, but effectively it dismantles the standard...







