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May 23, 2021 Slavery by the Hungarian Constitutional Court to Prime Minister Viktor Orban: the so-called 'slavery law' which increases the ceiling of overtime to 400 hours a year is "unconstitutional" - it has decreed accepting the appeal of the unions three years.
The court ruled that no one can be fired if they refuse overtime and that overtime must be paid within the year.
Strongly supported by the Orban government, the law was approved in 2018, despite thousands of Hungarians taking to the streets to protest.
The increase in the overtime cap meant for employees, in practice, a 6-day work week, or more than 10 hours a day for 5 days of work, with no guarantee of being paid for overtime.
The legislative change implemented by the Orbanan government met large companies, increasingly struggling to find workers in Hungary, but for the unions it was nothing more than "a slave law", since even if overtime remained on a voluntary basis, the workers could not refuse to do them on pain of the threat of dismissal.
The court ruling obliges the government to repeal the law by July.