40 Hour Work Week In Peril?

[Abandon]

holy hell, what did i just read

[Francisco]

I think this might be beneficial to someone like me, an independent, full-time worker/full-time student who works for a cheap company that doesn't offer OT hours and slashes benefits if your average hours drop below 30/wk.

It would allow me to pick up extra hours during time off from school, and then use the comp hours for times when school gets overwhelming/tough/etc...term papers and finals and shit.

Other than that, I'm not sure who else it would benefit.

[Tyche]

But your employer can deny those comp hours if they need you. They'll have to be approved.

36 hour work weeks are where it's at.

[kuronosan]

But your employer can deny those comp hours if they need you. They'll have to be approved.

36 hour work weeks are where it's at.

How often do your ER physicians work?

[Tyche]

Residents pull 12s, attending about 8-10. Usually 120ish hours a month.

[Tyche]

Anesthesia Kuro. Anesthesia.

[kuronosan]

I don't want the adcom to think I'm picky choosy.

[Callisto]

But your employer can deny those comp hours if they need you. They'll have to be approved.

36 hour work weeks are where it's at.

This is basically where I see it going, you rack up comp hours, then employer doesn't approve them when you want to use them and you basically get nothing for your overtime.

[archibaldcrane]

So with this plan would you get 1.5 comp hours for each hour of OT?

[Headspace]

So with this plan would you get 1.5 comp hours for each hour of OT?

Haha

[archibaldcrane]

No but seriously, that's the most immediate glaring problem with this - it's a direct reduction in compensation vs. the current setup...

[Ghost_Wheel22]

Problem is that whether you get to take OT or comp time is at the discretion of your employer, not your choice.

If your employer were to attempt to dick you over by unauthorizing comp time until it expired without any option of claiming your comp you would tell them you'll just ring up your state employment dept and get an ombudsman involved. Any business worth a shit knows the inquisition that would follow and will be quick with resolving "this small misunderstanding".

Of course it would require extensive paper-trailing, which should be moot since self documenting and archiving of your labor records is standard CYA procedure.

[Headspace]

If your employer were to attempt to dick you over by unauthorizing comp time until it expired without any option of claiming your comp you would tell them you'll just ring up your state employment dept and get an ombudsman involved. Any business worth a shit knows the inquisition that would follow and will be quick with resolving "this small misunderstanding".

Of course it would require extensive paper-trailing, which should be moot since self documenting and archiving of your labor records is standard CYA procedure.

Then your bitchassness gets fired for making a fuss because at-will.

[Dimmauk]

Then your bitchassness gets fired for making a fuss because at-will.

Yup. I was thinking At-Will as well.

[Palin]

Yup. I was thinking At-Will as well.

Then you sue for retaliation.

Still, as an HR guy, this law is obviously employer-friendly and comes at the employee's expense. As has been noted over the past pages.

[Headspace]

Then you sue for retaliation.

Haha

[Plow]

No but seriously, that's the most immediate glaring problem with this - it's a direct reduction in compensation vs. the current setup...

DATS NOT A PROBLEM ITS A WAY TO MAKE JERBZ

[test123]

If labor was in demand, the employees would be in a better position to bargin on these issues. But because of immigration, the minimum wage and other job killing regulations created by the Governement, the workers has to submit to poorer contracts from employers. The Gov creates a negative spiral where it kills jobs, which in turn lowers the demand for labor, which then gets dumped on the worker. In an attempt to help out the worker Gov kills more jobs and the spiral continues.

Price fixing, as fixing the price of labor(minimum wage) has disastrous consequences. Only the free market can save this situation. Let the free market create more jobs, which will stimulate better working conditions for the worker. Only free markets and competition can flurish the economy.

[Clash Perez]

You've just gone from suspected troll to confirmed troll, in my book. Poe be damned.

[Dimmauk]

Lol'd at naming immigration as a factor.