Is it reasonable to work eight hours?

First, the factory changed its working hours to "8-hour working system", which was opposed by all employees.

. At the beginning of February, a factory in Guanlan, Shenzhen, changed the original "12-hour working system" to "8-hour working system" because of business orders, and at the same time implemented double holidays.

This should have been a happy thing for all migrant workers, and even praised by many netizens outside. Everyone unanimously said that this is "the beginning of great progress in protecting the rights and interests of migrant workers in China enterprises."

However, as soon as the reform notice was issued, it was immediately unanimously opposed by all employees in the factory. All the staff went on strike and asked the boss to restore the "12 hour working system".

This has caused many netizens to say that they don't understand this, and even some netizens publicly swear that they don't want the hard-won right to work and have to go to work. Others want such benefits, but they can't get them. Isn't this uncomfortable for yourself?

But are factory employees really guilty of boycotting the "eight-hour work system"?

Second, the difficulties that migrant workers have to face.

In fact, it is really hard for factory employees to resist the "eight-hour working system".

Through interviews with factory employees, many employees said, who does not know that working hours are short and comfortable. However, for many ordinary factory workers, most of their wages are hourly or piecework wages. If the working hours are short every day, it means that their work income will be less.

Under the original "12-hour working system", many employees who work in factories have only enough monthly salary to support their families.

If the "eight-hour working system" is really implemented, it will mean that the working hours will be shortened by one third, and correspondingly, the wage income will be reduced by a part.

This is a great event for many migrant workers who are old and young. Compared with comfortable working hours, what everyone wants more is to be able to work more and get more wages.

Seeing the interviews of factory employees, many netizens who initially opposed it began to be silent. If you were in this situation, would you still support reducing working hours?

3. Is the factory implementing the "8-hour working system" really to respond to the protection of workers' rights and interests?

Through understanding, the factory is only the epitome of thousands of factories in Shenzhen. Due to the small scale of the factory and the influence of market, epidemic situation and other related factors, the order volume is also decreasing.

In fact, the implementation of the "eight-hour working system" in this factory is not to protect the rights and interests of workers, but to reduce the order volume of the factory. In order to reduce workers' wages and expenses, the factory owner decided to change the working hours to eight hours, hoping that this would successfully tide over the current difficulties.

I hope I can help you. Good luck.