We Need To Criticize 8 Hours Overtime

While the efforts to reduce the standard 8-hour working hours and to reduce the working days from five to four continue throughout the world, an important statement came for Turkey today. Vedat Bilgin, Minister of Labor and Social Security, We need to start criticizing the 8-hour shift now. shared.

Bilgin, who participated in the panel on “Occupational Health and Safety Framework in Remote Working: Healthy and Productive Remote Working” organized by the General Directorate of Occupational Health and Health, change according to the rate of change of society and stated that innovations should be made in these areas.

“8 hour shift is now part of our old habit”

“We started to perceive 8 hours as normal. However, after new technologies enter the production process of new information that replaces human labor. 8 hour shift is now part of our old habit We need to think, criticize. Today, there are studies to reduce 8 hours in many countries.

A pilot application was launched in the UK in the past few days. These will become widespread. Possibly after 25 years 6 or less hours of physical workOther forms of work, including remote work, will come into play. This is inevitable. These changes will inevitably occur as technology replaces labor and as technology disassociates the production process from space.

Changes in working life also raise some problems:

In addition to this statement, Minister Bilgin also talked about some of the problems that arise with new working styles:

“What are these problems? To ensure the safety of the employees once. The person works remotely, but what about the social security, what about the health insurance? What will be the gains from labor law? They need to be rearranged. In this regard, the concept of flexicurity emerges. We have to reorganize our legislation by making use of academic studies on this issue.”

“The responsibility for change here falls on us and the Parliament”

“The responsibility for change falls on us and the Parliament. As a result, the days when people were forced to work for 12 hours, 14 hours are over. Today, we are going through a period where 8-5 working hours are behind. This is not enough to explain the change. We are going through a period in which the understanding and tradition of meeting in the same place and contributing to the production process has been eroded.”