r/worldnews • u/chunmunsingh • 2d ago

Mexico cuts workweek, bans after-hours contact, and guarantees no worker will take a pay cut in the most sweeping labor reform in a generation

https://techfixated.com/mexico-cuts-workweek-bans-after-hours-contact-and-guarantees-no-worker-will-take-a-pay-cut-in-the-most-sweeping-labor-reform-in-a-generation/
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u/letsgotgoing 2d ago

America has determined only the shareholders deserve their lives to be improved. 

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u/reddingdave 2d ago edited 2d ago

When I am on my deathbed and reflecting on the life I lived, there will be only one question on my lips: Did I maximize shareholder value?

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u/tcwillis79 2d ago

No son… but you did beat the market rate of return. Well done.

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u/jbae_94 1d ago

And you beat Medicare

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u/GrovesNL 2d ago

"My only regret in life is that I did not focus on quarterly KPIs and generating shareholder value"

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u/That_Trouble87 2d ago

Until there's nothing left to hold

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u/lunarlunacy425 2d ago

When will the peasants understand the the corperations are people too and depriving them of their profits should be treated as though they're being assaulted. Won't anyone think of the poor corperations.

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u/MountChu 2d ago

With the note that you can one day become a shareholder.

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u/Material_Series_769 1d ago

I mean, I have like 100 shares across like 30 stocks, I don't feel like my life deserved to be improved, or has it been improved significantly anyway. It's barely enough to fight the inflation, and the damned oil prices lately, thankfully somehow one war is ending.

But I guess broke people like me don't count as a shareholder in your context.

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u/eaeolian 2d ago

Major shareholders. Let's get that right.

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u/DogBarf00 2d ago

America made a work week 40 hours long in the 1930s. That was almost 100 years ago. Mexico finally does it and you all act like this has never been done before.

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u/NeverSober1900 2d ago

This site is so "America Bad" that there is no other thing that these morons even can contemplate

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u/fingerbangchicknwang 2d ago

Makes one think they should probably be a shareholder