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Why would it not be legally binding?
Ok let me answer that.. Which country is going to vote a LAW that writes: nobody works more than 45 hours/week? The next day healthcare will collapse. Big corporations will lobby VERY hard against that.
The limit is 48 hours, and it's calculated with some averaging over multiple days, but I hope that's close enough.
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Pretty much every hospital globally. Its not great for the doctors, but if you're a patient with an acute problem its much better to have the same few doctors working keeping watch over you than a brand new doctor every 8 hours coming on board that doesn't know anything about why you're there.
There's probably a more optimal solution then either a current 8h handoff, or a zombie caring for you. However, doctoring, as profession, is a conservative one, and is highly resistant to process improvements. It took decades of effort, and decades of trivial mistakes (wrong organs removed, surgical instruments left inside patients when they are sewn up) to get the profession to even consider that maybe, maybe, check…
I would imagine that it would involve overlapping shifts so the handoff process can be extended over time.
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> Why do you think the hospitals do long shifts then? Just for fun? Because the culture of US medical training was initiated by a coke addict, and it's extremely conservative and slow-moving. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stewart_Halsted
But medical shifts are like this the world-over.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_resident_work_hours#EU...
As a consultant, I have a 50% rush fee. But for that, I've at times worked ~20 hours per day.
Before this comment section gets any more toxic, please understand the context. The org on GitHub that developed this license is called 996ICU ( https://996.icu/#/en_US ). It is a (very large) group of Chinese developers that are upset with the common practice of working 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week. Please be mindful of the fact that lots of developers around the world work under genuinely awful conditions, and that yo…
> your (x times y) work week is a privilege earned by a long history of labour activism in the Western world. You have no proof of this. The (x times y) work week for manual labourers was earned by a long history of labour activism. Good working conditions for highly-skilled in-demand work arise naturally through supply and demand.
You have no clue why someone is working more than 10 hours consecutively or more than 45 hours a week. Maybe that's something they're being paid quite well to do, and maybe they want to do so. This type of restriction just screams "I want to feel like a good person." You're within your rights to use this restriction, but it's equally as ridiculous as a restriction forcing employees not to eat toast on Tuesdays, Wedne…
Right, this is perhaps the fundamental objection to social-good software licenses: how many people who don't engage in social good do respect copyright? The GPL works because it's pretty unambiguous about what exactly your obligations are, it's pretty unambiguous when there's a violation of those obligations, and because there are entities that do care deeply about copyright (like, oh, Microsoft and Oracle and IBM) t…
What about companies that see respecting laws as a tradeoff between having less profits and getting fined? If breaking the law implies an additional fine due to this license, it may tip the balance the other way.
Ah, yet another "open-source if you follow my principles" license. It should be an uninteresting fact at this point that yes, you can in fact put whatever clauses you want in your software license. Note that this is a license restriction addon, not a standalone license. To use, ammend to and reference by another license. Note that this removes "open-source" status from the original license if it is open-source, accor…
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But medical shifts are like this the world-over.
Why do you believe that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_resident_work_hours#EU...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2009/nov/05/nhs-confiden...
In the UK they always worked long shifts because it’s safer. They’re trying to stop them, and it’s less safe.
Why do you think the reason the UK has always worked long hours is due to a drug addiction in the US rather than experience in safety?
As a consultant, I have a 50% rush fee. But for that, I've at times worked ~20 hours per day.
I think you technically aren't affected by that license, as you are not an employee.