I call BS on the idea that anyone works 13 hour days without a weird shift schedule.

You may be at work 13 hours, but you ain’t working. With your hands or your mind.

"Allow"is carrying an awful lot of weight there.

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Fuck. That. Shit.

Why bother living?

I just don’t care enough to “just be alive” if it’s all spent working to make someone else rich.

Through the whole article this is all they can tell us?

The new legislation permits 13-hour work days, up from eight

Nothing about the real consequences, like how are the extra hours paid?
Instead we get anecdotes about people complaining this is bad. But what exactly about it is bad we don’t know from articles like this that don’t provide the most basic information of the actual consequences!

Here you can work 13 hours per day too, but the standard for a full time job is 37.5 hours per week, and the standard is important to get full unemployment benefits if you lose your job.

As I see it, the article contains no information about this apart from the part I quoted above. And it doesn’t explain exactly why people are so angry about it. There must be more to it, than just “permitting” 13-hour work days?!

PS:
13 hours is also the max here (Denmark), as you are required to have minimum 11 hours of rest between workdays.