You always hear the phase “9 to 5” and also the song with the same name. Assuming you include 1 hour worth of breaks (30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks), you’re only working for 7 hours a day which comes up to 35 hours a week.

Now it feels like you have to work 8 hours a day (for a total of 40 hours of actual work), plus your other time off meaning you’re really there for 9 hours each day (for a total of 45 hours). Am i looking at that wrong, or did expected times change, and if so, when?

  • otp@sh.itjust.works
    19·
    1 month ago

    I live in Canada. We get a half-hour lunch that isn’t paid in my province.

    Also, if you take more than 3 sick days a year, your boss can fire you. And the 3 sick days are unpaid. The government lowered the number from 10 to 3 shortly before the pandemic, and didn’t raise it again! Oh, and to count, your boss can demand a doctor’s note. Which cost money to the patient.

      • otp@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        1 month ago

        There might still be some decent provinces.

        But yeah, I blame brain drain, cuts to the education system, and the influence of American culture! Haha

        • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          That really sounds like one of the flat-lander regions.

          I get 21 holidays a year, not counting every second friday off because of my 9x9 compressed-time agreement. If I plan it right, and hit the stats with the comp days, that’s 7 weeks off a year. Why, that’s almost european. I’ve just finished my first year at this shop.

          • otp@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            1 month ago

            Is that by law, or what your employer offers? Because I’m talking about what the law requires.

      • otp@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 month ago

        It’s Ontario! aka. Open for (Big) Business. No longer “Yours to Discover” because it’s all been sold off.