And that’s exactly the problem. It’s impossible to be voluntary if you have a power imbalance between employer and employee. “Hey, I need you to work this weekend” “But is Jan 1st, I can’t.” …. “Hey, sorry I have to fire you, you’re not a team player”
People need money, they will subject themselves to this kind of thing.
Not fucked up countries have laws against firing for such shit. You can absolutely have this as voluntary and even desirable for some. A lot of people I know happily work during certain holidays since they get double pay, it is a slower day and it’s not a holiday they care about. So easy money for them for what they consider almost a regular day.
It’s pretty ridiculous to force all businesses to close for some Christian holidays as a measure of worker protections instead of having some actual worker protections.
The US gets a raw deal when it comes to workers’ rights in general. In Germany the situation is much better but they cling to the Christian traditional holiday thing and sometimes explain it as a workers’ rights thing when it doesn’t at all need to be like that. Honestly it feels mostly just conservativism.
And that’s exactly the problem. It’s impossible to be voluntary if you have a power imbalance between employer and employee. “Hey, I need you to work this weekend” “But is Jan 1st, I can’t.” …. “Hey, sorry I have to fire you, you’re not a team player” People need money, they will subject themselves to this kind of thing.
Not fucked up countries have laws against firing for such shit. You can absolutely have this as voluntary and even desirable for some. A lot of people I know happily work during certain holidays since they get double pay, it is a slower day and it’s not a holiday they care about. So easy money for them for what they consider almost a regular day.
It’s pretty ridiculous to force all businesses to close for some Christian holidays as a measure of worker protections instead of having some actual worker protections.
No one is forced to close, they prefer to close because no one want to go lmao
Uhh in some countries law requires shops to be closed on certain days… Situation like you describe is preferable to me, that’d be good
What countries?
Germany for one. Same used to be the case in Finland until they made it more sensible
That’s a stupid law, didn’t expected it from.germany honestly
In the US it’s usually just time and a half
The US gets a raw deal when it comes to workers’ rights in general. In Germany the situation is much better but they cling to the Christian traditional holiday thing and sometimes explain it as a workers’ rights thing when it doesn’t at all need to be like that. Honestly it feels mostly just conservativism.