Saturday, January 19, 2019

IS WORKING SIX DAYS A WEEK THE SAME AS SLAVERY?


BLOOMBERG: ANTI SLAVERY PROSTEST - ANTI ORBAN PROTEST

EXCERPT: Hungarians staged nationwide protests and threatened the first general strike since the end of Communism to pressure Prime Minister Viktor Orban into repealing a controversial new law on overtime.
Thousands gathered on Saturday in Budapest and blocked traffic in more than a dozen cities across the country, reflecting dissent that's spreading beyond the capital.  Labor unions and opposition groups are protesting what critics have dubbed the "slave law," which allows companies to ask employees to work the equivalent of six days a week...