Protests Grip Hungary In Response To Overtime Measure That Critics Call A 'Slave Law'
The new law allows employers to ask staff to work up to 400 hours per year of overtime — but employers can delay payment for up to three years.
Updated at 7:33 p.m. ET
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán, a darling of Europe's far-right, has tightened his grip on power in ways that have shocked the European Union.
His ultranationalist Fidesz party has gamed the electoral system, shut down most independent media, forced out an American university and even created new administrative courts that will be directly controlled by the government.
But none of these measures have generated the type of outrage in Hungary that has greeted a new law that allows employers to ask staff to work up to 400
