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It means they can't knock off at 3pm.
The workers, mostly women, start at 7.30am and could knock off at 4pm, but almost all stay for two hours' overtime.
"We used to work till 11 P.M., but now we knock off at eight or nine, because of the delincuencia," he said.
On Monday, the employment minister, Fátima Báñez, announced a push to let Spaniards knock off at 6pm, rather than the current 8pm.
Quite how we get from our Americanised society to one where top editors knock off at teatime I leave to other, harder-working people to decide.
John Lanchester summed it up well in his phrasing of a question increasingly asked in Germany: "Why [should] Germans work until 69 to fund the retirement of Greek public-sector workers who (supposedly) knock off at 55?" Germans have, of course, been through this once in recent years.
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