No wonder the CIA is fucking with them.
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The billionaires are freaking out
Mi español es muy limitado, but I'm ready to go.
Soon Mexico will have to build a wall to keep Americans out.
And make us pay for it!
I think we already built it and paid for it.
A bit late that,
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This answers the question I had, about what happens if a worker does in fact work longer than that.
Employees can work overtime during the workweek, but no more than 12 hours total, with a maximum of four hours on any given day and no more than four overtime days per week.
I wonder what the rules are around having a second job?
In most countries a second job is just not really allowed without your primary employer's approval. Which they are very unlikely to give. It's more a US thing for people who have problems making ends meet.
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This is how serious countrys operate.
They needed the wall built first to cut themselves off from the riffraff
She needs to reform the US, next.
Honestly, companies have legitimately taken advantage of productivity gains from technology over the last 30+years. We get more done individually now than we ever have before, so companies save millions on effectively having less staff, that're also paid less due to sharp rises of inflation & CoL.
We should be down to 24 hours a week IMO, because I myself piss away about half my week anyway trying to come up with shit to do! I know others are in similar boats.
I own a company, self employed and I set up my business to only need to do 20 billable hours a week. That covers my wage and insurance costs for myself. Obviously at that I'm not making profit as a business but as an employee I am making a good living
It really opened my eyes to how much businesses fuck their employees and how much value i created for the 13 years i worked for others.
I think we should have a law that employees at a company have a right to a share of % of the profits.
Would help incentives workers, too. You're gonna work harder if you know your efforts actually pay off.
even better: the workers should own the company. including its profits as well as its decisions.
a share of % of the profits.
Hollywood already has the playbook for that. You can have as little "profit" as you need to avoid payouts to people with profit share arrangements. Funny how executive compensation cuts into profits...
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Just like the first industrial revolution. We're again in a post industrial gilded age.
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Mexico is amending it's constitution and the US can't even pass a budget to keep it's fucking bridges from collapsing. Meanwhile USA calls Mexico a failed state lol.
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Anybody upset about this needs to be upset with their employer. If you need to work over 12 hours a day everyday you're being severely underpaid. Saying this as a guy that used to do it to survive. My boss would praise me and tell people everyone needed to be more like me while knowing damn well why I was doing what I was doing. Tried to be the empathetic hand while completely exploiting me.
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Just look at the awful things a woman president will do.
Let's pretend the Queen of England didn't just finally fuck off or all the other female authoritarians/war criminals, let's remove her agency and attribute any good she does to being a woman.
It's more sexist than the implication itself.
Margaret Thatcher was UK's Reagan. Everything she didn't ruin herself; she readied to be ruined later.
It wasn't because she was a woman. It was because she was a freaking neoliberal.
It's also just really fucking annoying that this platitude comes up every time a headline is posted about a woman doing good, as if people are just incapable of thinking it through.
Neither Clinton nor Harris would have supported this, and in fact, they'd have told their rotating villains to oppose it and claimed powerlessness, as Dems always do. (Which is, in part, why they lost their elections.)
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Hopefully, Mexico will actually achieve the American Dream, rather than being dragged into a nightmare by their capitalists.
Can't wait for American illegal immigrants to get deported from Mexico
That's already a problem in Mexico. American immigrants have been moving to the nice parts of Mexico, and they have been inflating the ever living fuck out of the prices there. American money is unmatched, and no Mexican business is going to dumb enough to let it slip by. They've been increasing prices and catering to Americans to the point where Mexicans are being squeezed out entirely from the equation.
There are parts of Mexico city where Mexicans are completely priced out. People with houses in the nice parts try to sell them to Americans to get more money. Developers are building condo buildings that cater to American styles, and they're entirely branded and marketed in English. Businesses in the area notice the increase in Americans walking around and jack up their prices to get a share of the pie themselves, which leads Americans to get another part of the city that's still cheap to get the most out of their money repeating the cycle. Americans have already been doing this to countries like Spain, Portugal, and Italy, but now they're doing it to Mexico too.
Damn, here I thought I was making a bad joke, but reality seems to be a bad joke these days.
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That's the beauty of the Mexican project. They're going to accommodate the refugees in a way Americans refused to do. And they're going to become a better country for it
Holy shit. Claudia my queen
"The reform does not mandate two rest days per week. [...] create the conditions under which a four-day working week becomes practically achievable for the first time for a significant portion of the Mexican workforce."
Mexico is one of the few countries with only a 1-day weekend, along with:
- Colombia, Bolivia, Equatorial Guinea, Honduras, Hong Kong, North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Uganda, and India (Sundays);
- Djibouti (only 40h/w tho), Palestine, Iran, and Somalia (Fridays); and
- Nepal (only 42h/w tho) (Saturdays).
I thought I read theyre cutting work hours from 48 to 40. Not good enough imo. Thats what were at and still burned out.
Don't let perfect be enemy of the good.
Agreed. Shes done a hell of a lot more for her constituents than our politicians.
Maximum working hours* which is not the same.
Americans sign up for jobs at 40 and if they're salaried they almost all work at least 45, and are then expected to be contacted out of work.
Word. I had a job that promised no more than 40 and my manager offered unofficial comp time for any overage. Then the economy slowed and they wanted to downsize, so fired me for working less than 40 hours one week a few months before.
Be honest, that's not where millions of Americans are. 3 jobs, no overtime, ludicrous living costs is where many Americans are.
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can we get her to be the PM of more countries pls
I had to execute a contract with a supplier in Mexico recently and they have a law (REPSE) that means you cannot engage a sub contractor when instead there's a reasonable argument that you could employ them instead.
It's to protect an empire being manipulated and not receive benefits. They really do look out for their employee rights which is great to see
Pretty soon, Mexico will pay for the wall, to keep illegal Americans out.
4D chess!
Wow, their real achieved productivity is gonna go up nicely (if the studies are right about this sort of thing ...)
Who cares about productivity? Can't people just enjoy life at the level our resources allow? Why people need to work most of the week anymore is a mystery to me. Or past the age of 45-50. I'm so god damn tired of the endless repetitive grind of meaningless work to create next year's landfill...
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