07/05/2024

Greece's New Six-day Workweek Law Takes Effect

The longer week bucks most trends for shortened workweeks

For most people, working five days a week is plenty. How about six?

Greece enacted a new employment law this week that lays out a six-day workweek — at a time when dozens of other countries are increasingly seeing positive results from experiments with four-day workweeks.

Law 5053/2023, passed by parliament last fall, says an employee cannot work more than 8 hours on the additional day, according to the official Government Gazette. The employee would be paid 40 percent overtime for the sixth day’s wages.

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