If I'm following the numbers correctly it seems to functionally come out at max of ~60h/week where ~12 of that would be at an overtime rate. Not sure what that compares to before but it sounds like an increase in both base and overtime limits. Interesting the night shift wasn't allowed for women before.
A point of comparison - in Norway employers need special dispensation to have workers work more than 100 hours overtime per year (with max 40 regular hours/week and five weeks paid vacation time).
yeah, interesting. Sweden is pretty close to Norway but Denmark is considerably ahead of Norway. Doesn't seem that a high GDP correlates than much with higher salaries in Norway's case (unlike in Switzerland)
> The legislation limits the maximum workweek to 48 hours, but also increases the number of overtime allowed to 145 over a three-month period from the previous 75 hours.
A 5x12 shift would require 1/5 of the time to be classified as overtime. Indian labour laws seem to state that overtime must be paid at 2x regular wages.
Almost seems like it would make sense to hire more people and have them work 4x12?
It depends on the benefits, taxes, training they pay for the incremental employees if it's worth it to plan for overtime or hire more people. Foxconn is a massive operation making a tiny profit margin thru contract manufacturing so if they're doing it this way, it probably makes sense for them.
