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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.'"
Ah, but even those who excel will be subject to long hours, weekend work, and other working conditions that the company demands. It is the nature of the creative workflow that makes it difficult to determine when an employee will be most productive. Therefore, as time on a project runs out, all team members are pressed into working those long hours to make up for "wasted" time.
Even if an exceptional engineer were to leave, the work environment at most competitive companies is similar across the board, so there is little net benefit for the engineer.
I am not going to give up time with my family so some middle manager can get some slaps on his back for bringing in the project on a date he never should have agreed to in the first place. What ever happened to accountability? oh right.... they get $700bn bail outs.
These troubled times are going to be interesting. Apologists for America's unrestricted capitalism argue that top talent demands top dollar and that market forces are justifying these outrageous salaries. "Obviously, Company X thinks Chairman Z is worth eleventy billion gigabucks because they wouldn't pay him that much if he weren't worth it." People are starting to realize that the market is a rigged game, just like a casino -- no, wait, it is a casino. Maybe it wasn't supposed to be, maybe it didn't used to be, but it is now. This bailout is being condemned something like 300 to 1 I hear, congresscritters are getting their ears chewed off by irate constituents.
it'll be interesting to see what the consequences are. In my view, the Republicans are the evil scumfucks who directly pushed for this kind of shit and the Democrats have been codependent enablers, some of them guilty of doing nothing to oppose this evil while others were as actively engaged in it as the Republicans. The vichy Dems responsible for cringing and cowering along with the Republicans should be held just as accountable and bear the more dire of consequences.
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Nice broad and false statement.
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Who is making this shit up? Just because people repeat that lie doesn't make it true. Belonging to a union does not take away your freedom or any opportunities.
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