Brazil’s New Overtime Law ⇥

Sheena Rossiter for Monocle:

Brazil’s Superior Labour Court is looking to take up a new law this month that will allow employees who check emails or answer phone calls after work to apply for overtime.

The article makes a number of good points, but the facet I’m most interested in relates to Foxconn’s new factories in Brazil. If the government there is this stringent about overtime, perhaps the working conditions at those factories will be dramatically improved over those in China.