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Four-day work week to be trialled in Dominican Republic
No chance these hotels in Punta Cana will go for this. They all overwork employees now,,,,,,,,,,,,,
If it were up to those folks their employees would be working 12 hours a day 7 days a week.
My Haitian kid is trying to get a job at one. 19k pesos a months, 6 days a week, 7-7.
The last comments in the thread confirms what I was thinking. It’s not realistic in many areas. Sounds like another propaganda stunt by the DR government. They got international press coverage over it. I remember this from the pandemic. They were very good at pretending to be a developed country.
in certain industries there is "piece work" when a certain job or assignment is completed successfully you are off until the next assignment. Anything customer service related, like tourism, a body must be in place. A four day work week is encouraged my unions, not business owners.
Forget it. He can make more washing cars. Only place he can make real cash is some of these Vacation Club sales. Comission job, but if he is fluent in English and Spanish he can do very well.....
Why would govt control what we are doing? Let companies decide for themselves. This is such waste IMHO
Or let companies and industries decide together with employees and unions.
This is a pilot program which companies can "volunteer" to be a part of.
What always gets me is how the people who want to PARTY HARD and "hate work" always seem to have such an extensive list of desires that they want to fulfill. The same folks that complain about how low wages are here are the ones who provide poor customer service, show up late or not at all, operate with poor productivity and exhibit a lack of workplace integrity, up to and including justifying theft on the job.
You can't have it both ways and the people who say "They behave that way because they don't get paid enough" are putting the cart before the horse. You cannot get paid a First World English/German/Scandanavian-speaking country's average wage-rate without putting in the work and excelling at productivity and performance like the workers of those countries do.
This is not a step in the right direction. If an entrepreneur did this they would be shooting themselves in the foot. Few people have that mindset. Far too many people want something for nothing.
You can't have it both ways and the people who say "They behave that way because they don't get paid enough" are putting the cart before the horse. You cannot get paid a First World English/German/Scandanavian-speaking country's average wage-rate without putting in the work and excelling at productivity and performance like the workers of those countries do.
This is not a step in the right direction. If an entrepreneur did this they would be shooting themselves in the foot. Few people have that mindset. Far too many people want something for nothing.