{"id":26644,"date":"2018-12-23T14:22:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T14:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26644"},"modified":"2018-12-23T14:22:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T14:22:29","slug":"anger-over-hungary-slave-law-rages-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26644","title":{"rendered":"Anger over Hungary &#8216;slave law&#8217; rages on"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"65.6350482315\">\n<p>Thousands of people have been demonstrating in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/hungary.html\">Hungary<\/a> over the past week in protest against changes to employment rights and pay.<\/p>\n<p>The new legislation, which the opposition is calling the &#8220;slave law&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/12\/chaos-hungarian-parliament-passes-slave-law-overtime-181212134242087.html\">allows companies to demand more overtime<\/a> from their employees.<\/p>\n<p>Hungary&#8217;s government said the law is necessary because the country is a victim of its own success, with a shortage of skilled labour caused by near-full employment, but some experts have said the law may exacerbate the problem by driving young workers abroad to do the same work for higher wages.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Robin Forestier Walker reports from Budapest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people have been demonstrating in Hungary over the past week in protest against changes to employment rights and pay. The new legislation, which the opposition is calling the &#8220;slave law&#8221;, allows companies to demand more overtime from their employees. Hungary&#8217;s government said the law is necessary because the country is a victim of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}