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Symbiote on Oct 18, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Find...

It's the EU Working Time directive.

You can work longer for yourself, but not for someone else.

http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=706&langId=en&intP...

wott on Oct 19, 2016 [–]

But is not applied for everyone. In my country, it doesn't apply to engineers typically: the only limit is 13h/day, 6days/week, so that's a "limit" of 78h/week...

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