Do they make the days 28 hours overall to compensate?

They can thank IMF and government.

Greece is subject to post-program monitoring (PPM), focusing on its ability to repay the IMF, as a country which owes the fund more than 1.5 billion SDR or 200 percent of its quota.

The IMF’s austerity policies were criticized as violating the Greek constitution and human rights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece_and_the_International_Monetary_Fund

We need a general strike.

A 13 hour work day, what the fuck? You would no time for anything else.

Assuming a 1 hour commute time:

7am leave for work

8am start work

9pm leave work

10pm get home

9 hours until you have to leave for work again, ~7 hours needed for sleep, only 2 hours to do anything else.

I also just learned the word “roughshod”, interesting.

So people were not allowed to work 13 hours in 1 day up until now?
The rule we have here (Denmark) is that we must have 11 hour rest period between 2 shifts.
The normal work week is 37.5 hours, but if you want you can work 13 hours per day, since that gives you 11 hours rest.

We have some of the highest wages in Europe, possibly in part because of flexible regulation, mostly negotiated directly between unions and employers.
Denmark is also one of the easiest countries to fire people in EU, but we have one of the lowest unemployment rates.
The fact that it’s easy to fire, also makes it easy to make a decision to try to expand or start new projects. If it goes wrong, damage control can be relatively swift, and not break the company if it fails.