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The shift is notable because it runs counter to the companies and countries that are experimenting with a four-day workweek. The extra hours will come with a 40% jump in pay for Greek workers who add two hours to their day or take on an extra eight-hour workday. He previously told BI that he and his management colleagues began looking into a four-day workweek after seeing successful pilots in Japan and other countries. They wanted to make sure we keep doing the four-day workweek," he said. AdvertisementBasis Technologies, an advertising software company, shifted its workweek to four and a half days after years of experiments with a four-day workweek and other approaches.
Persons: , Adedy, Zachary Toth, Toth didn't, Toth, Emily Barron, Barron, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Aris, Germany's Organizations: Service, Business, Guardian, Research, Metex Corporation, Technologies, Aris Kazakos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Germany's DW Locations: Greece, India, Toronto, Japan
Read previewAs countries and companies worldwide trial a shorter workweek, one economy is moving to a six-day workweek. The employer has the authority to require staff to work a sixth day in the week and staff cannot refuse to work, he said. In 2023, 179 workers were killed in accidents at work in Greece, up from 104 the year before, DW reported. Per the OECD, they work an average of 36 hours a week, while workers in France, Netherlands, and Germany work less than 30 hours. AdvertisementGreece's reform is a stark contrast to initiatives other countries are taking to reduce the number of working days.
Persons: , Aris, Kazakos Organizations: Service, Business, Workers, Aris Kazakos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, DW, OECD Locations: Greece, France, Netherlands, Germany
[1/6] A man stands next to flowers and messages for the victims of a fatal train crash, at the closed train station of Thessaloniki, Greece, March 24, 2023. REUTERS/Alexandros AvramidisTHESSALONIKI, Greece, April 4 (Reuters) - A month after 12 students at Greece's largest university were killed in a train crash, messages of grief across the campus are tinged with rage. "This crime will not be forgotten," a note on a makeshift memorial at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki reads. Fifty-seven people died in the country's deadliest rail disaster on Feb. 28, when a passenger train and a cargo train travelling on the same track collided head-on. "This sadness, this anger, we tried - as students - to turn it into a fight," said Evangelia Grigoriou, a civil engineering student.
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