• FlowVoid@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Yeah, I don’t understand how the “no loss of pay” part is implemented either.

    Even if there is something in the bill that requires overtime pay, that’s just a multiplier to the base wage. What keeps an unscrupulous employer from just dropping the base rate by 20%?

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      8 months ago

      It’s not even a question of dropping the base rate.

      Hourly workers are paid per hour. I mean it’s pretty basic, right. The terms of employment are your paid at a rate of x per hour.

      They’re just going to cut hours- not pay. And it’s a bit ridiculous to expect that companies are going to just increase effective rates when they still need the same number of hours worked.

      They’re still going to be paying for that labor. have to pay someone for the hours you can’t work because paying overtime is one of the carnal sins of middle Managment.

      A 32 hour workweek just doesn’t translate well to retail or anywhere that’s not white collar office jobs.

      • Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        And add to that, anybody who is already salaried is just going to end up working the same 40+ that they’re already doing.

        Out of all those jobs I had, only 1 gave me anything for OT, and that was just TOIL, which is nice but not sufficient when you’re the only person in your position.

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          8 months ago

          I know a guy that spent 2 or 3 years with some stellar spreadsheets; he just coasted turning out the data (which was right,).

          that stopped when he shared the spreadsheets with a few friends… then he kept getting asked to fix other people’s spreadsheets. which… would be a cool gig; if people weren’t so awful at spreadsheets.