CA Legislature Torpedoes IT Overtime

An anonymous reader writes to mention that a recent piece of California legislation is enabling tech firms to avoid paying their workers overtime. Originally designed to deal with bonds for children's hospitals, bill AB10 was completely rewritten to prevent lawsuit damages over overtime nonpayment. "'This is the first time that the Legislature has done a takeaway of the rights of private-sector workers as part of the budget deal,' said Caitlin Vega of the California Labor Federation. 'We just think it is wrong. We think it will really hurt the groups of workers who will be expected to work through the weekend and not get paid.'"

Comments

You mean...

[ivandavidoff]

you can get paid for overtime?

Re:You mean...

[Anonymous Coward]

you can get paid for overtime?

The beauty of this industry is that although you can't get paid for overtime, but you can get paid for reading Slashdot.

That's a pretty good trade in my book.

Re:You mean...

[ivandavidoff]

The beauty of this industry is that although you can't get paid for overtime, but you can get paid for reading Slashdot. That's a pretty good trade in my book.

Concur. Let's not rock the boat.

Unreal...

[teknopurge]

Why is Arnold not doing something about this?

Re:well

[fiannaFailMan]

Most of you IT people are libertarians

What?! Since when?

i've noticed a lot

[circletimessquare]

of my fellow workers here on the farm collective lean monarchist theocrat, while my former unit in military intelligence leaned green anarchist. but hey, that could just be me

anecdotes, shmanecdotes

Re:i've noticed a lot

[infonography]

you mean we are not living in an Anarcho-syndicalist commune?

next you'll be telling me we're living in a dictatorship

Re:Yes

[sesshomaru]

Republicans are more likely to be self-sufficient go-getters, to work at startups where they have a hand in the direction, focus, and success of their endeavor. They expect to have to earn everything they get.

I'd have modded you "funny" for that one, myself.

Bunch of Ungrateful Serfs

[nurb432]

You should be glad we give you a job in the first place. Now, quit whining and get back to work before you are replaced.

Re:Yes

[XanC]

Next I suppose you'll be telling us the Democrats are the party of wealthy elites.

Allow me: The Democrats are the party of wealthy elites.

Re:get what you pay for....

[lymond01]

I work 9 to 5. I work HARD 9 to 5 -- Friday September 26, @02:38PM

Slashdot break time is it? ;-)

Re:Yes

[ivan256]

We have a winner.

You missed part though. Republican's don't like it when someone else is receiving it. Democrats don't like it when they're the ones that have to give it away.

Re:get what you pay for....

[Achromatic1978]

I work 9 to 5. I work HARD 9 to 5, but at 5 I log out and go home.

Says someone who has made 19 of his last 24 posts on Slashdot during business hours, including this one.

Re:well

[Glonoinha]

Look up from the keyboard. Higher. Now look around.
See all the computer manuals? Those are books. Your books.
You arrange them in a certain order. You know the material contained within. You occasionally loan them out to your friends, and you get them back and put them exactly where they belong.

That makes you a libertarian.

Re:well

[Fred_A]

So when they hired you and you never saw your overtime on your paycheck, what would you do then? Seeing as how you can't sue them...

Automatically add it by editing the paycheck printing routine ? After all there *has* to be some kind of advantage to being a programmer.