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Dreams of Fully Automated Luxury Socialism Delayed?
Icelandic police have reported negative consequences of a municipal experiment to shorten the work week. Lasting from 2015 to 2019, two large-scale studies involved the reduction of working hours across the public sector, including preschools, police and social services, and hospitals. Pay…
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Union Official Worried About Tourism Industry Workers
The managing director of one of Iceland’s largest trade unions says they are “extremely worried” about workers in the tourism industry. “We are extremely worried about [workers within] this field,” Drífa Snædal, the Managing Director of the Federation of General and Special…
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Demanded Fair Wage And Got Fired
A former employee of Lebowski Bar, after asking to be paid according to the law, was fired from her position. Trade union Efling says the exploitation of restaurant workers is common, and that there is little they can do about it. MBL…