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New Overtime Rules Have Short Shelf Life
rwiedower writes "So the House just voted to scrap the new overtime rules that went into effect August 23. The vote was 223-193. Were the new rules designed to shaft IT workers from getting overtime? Or were they merely designed to streamline outdated rules?"
It happened in Ontario in 2002, they took away IT professionals ability to get overtime and other exceptions and nobody seemed to have cared :(
If anyone is in Ontario, is a geek, and in IT we must repeal the 2002 regulations putting IT into slave labour jobs!
Everyone wants a Tux in their life.
I usually hate unions, but tech workers are one of those places where push has gone way past coming to shove. IT workers have been abused terribly for a very long time and we can only take so much abuse before we get fed up. So long as the membership isn't compulsory, the union sticks to JUST negotiating labor contracts and the workers keep a sharp eye on both the company AND the union, it just might work.
There is a difference between "insightful" and "inciteful" other than spelling.
Yeah, you said it. This is all nonsense. I thought this kind of thing was what unions are for (at least in theory *cough* *cough*). It's just like minimum wage laws. People think you can crank up the minimum wage and the money just materializes out of thin air. Somehow the idea of people losing jobs because of it, as well as paying higher prices (which hurts most those very people the law is supposed to help) doesn't seem to cross their minds. Meanwhile, laws make it harder and harder to get rid of employees without risking legal action, so the employees you are paying more for go down in quality, because there's less incentive to be productive and/or compete. Our communist friends took this to its logical conclusion but apparently could never see that its failure was inevitable.
I can appreciate that low income employees don't have much leverage, but I'm so sick of hearing the endless litany of regulations being passed. How long will it be until the rules are so complex that no one can understand them all and law enforcement can prosecute people at random because everyone's guilty of something if you look hard enough?
Oh, wait, that's already happened.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
This is not true. Safty concerns cause governments to regulate working hours. You want bigrig truck drivers on the road 16-20 hours at a time, falling asleep and causing accidents? You want to work with a 12 hour shift forklift operator who's getting tired making mistakes handling heavy skids?
IT is not immune either, the more time at the keyboard the quicker your wrists will degrade. You don't want the state to have to pay more for your, and everyone elses, medicare just because you worked 2 hours more a shift for 25 years, do you?
Safty First.
Um, what if your boss, and all the other bosses, say, "work overtime for free." Or, what if, companies like walmart LOCK THEIR EMPLOYEES IN to get them to work overtime for free?
Religion is a gateway psychosis. -- Dave Foley