CA Legislature Torpedoes IT Overtime

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday September 26, 2008 @06:29AM from the but-it's-for-their-own-good dept.

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.'"

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Re:get what you pay for.... by DoofusOfDeath · 2008-09-26 06:48 · Score: 5, Interesting

I am not going to give up time with my family so some middle manager can get some slaps on his back ...
And therein lies the problem. You may not be willing to, but it's almost certain that someone else (probably someone with no kids yet) will be willing to waste his time in that manner. And he's your competition. And new replicas of him are graduated every year.