Antiwork

I'm reading posts from this subreddit since friday and I can't stop.. and I also can't believe it. I thought I could show you how things work in Switzerland. Working overtime: You are not allowed to work more than 8 hours / 8 hours and 25 minutes a day. Your boss has to allow that and it's very very rare. As far as I remember, you get 25% of your wages (hourly) on top of that for every hour of overtime you work. Depending on the agreement, you can also compensate them and take vacation time. However, overtime must be reasonable and necessary. If, for example, you have to pick up your daughter from school during the time in which you would have to work overtime, you can reject it. It is not reasonable not to pick up your daughter. Vacation: According to the law, from the age of 20…

Hello. If any information in the title is incorrect, please notify and upvote the appropriate comment or delete my post entirely. I’ve tried looking up news articles and other sources but most just speak about the deaths of individuals who fell into a hole and from a ladder as well as the death of an individual who fell INTO a crucible and what the potential fines are. Which are abysmally low according to what I’ve read when simply searching “Caterpillar Maple Foundry Death 2022”. This is so frightening to me that even when these companies kill people due to incompetence or lack of security efforts they only get a small slap? To put this into perspective, the company made 51$ BILLION with a B in recent years and is the largest construction and mining entity in the world and their fines seem to total up to less than 300,000. Thanks…

As some of you may know a delivery company started a scheme over a year ago that they would let you use a bike and pay you by the hour. As a part time student this fit me perfectly. I would submit my availability a week In advance and get my full contracted hours within my submitted availability. After a while they begain decreasing hours bit by bit telling you that ” you have not submitted availability within our peak hours” ( I always submitted all Saturday and all Sunday)they constantly gave me at least 10 hours under my contracted hours. Only gave my 4 hours in the morning or 4 hours in the evening ect. Since I was depending on them to you know. Survive. I had to find other work but have kept myself on the books with them to make abit of extra cash. making up for…