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Workers In Brazil Can Claim Overtime For Answering Email After Hours
New submitter zzyvits writes "With smartphones becoming more and more common, the push for employees to work after hours is becoming greater. Would the push be as hard if the employers had to pay for it? A law recently passed in Brazil makes it possible for employees who answer emails after normal work hours to claim overtime pay."
They're not going to pay overtime. So what they'll do is instruct the email servers to not send mail outside office hours. This might cause problems if employees don't all work at the same time. But doubtless the servers can be programmed to send mail in some customized fashion.
Maybe even make it the employee's job to update a settings page in the web terminal for the email system.
Memo 5441: Employees are required to keep current their hours by logging into the provided address. Errors in this system will be assumed the employee's responsibility and the company takes no responsibility for... yahtah yahtah yahtah.
They're not paying over time. Governments might be dumb enough to do it but corps just won't. So they'll find some way to not do it. They don't really need employees to respond to company emails outside of work time anyway.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
I don't mind working....but I do NOT work for free. If I do work at any time, I bill for it, and yes, it definitely makes the employer think twice about calling or bothering you after hours.
This, and considering that there is such thing as employer loyalty nor job security....hell, just about everyone should opt (if possible) for the contractor route.
If you're gonna get the loyalty and job security from an employer that a contractor gets, you might as well get the freedom, tax breaks and bill rate that a contractor gets....no?
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Then that would imply the managers aren't working, since the manager's job is to make sure the peons are working.
This is not the funny you're looking for.
No, the manager's job is to make sure that the company's objective's are achieved on time and in budget. If an employee's overall productivity is higher if he or she takes periodic breaks to play Angry Birds or post on Slashdot rather than working solidly all of the time in the office, then only a bad manager would insist on removing the 'distractions'. Most people work best if they take short breaks quite frequently.
I'm pretty sure that you are replying to a troll though. The 'company's bandwidth streaming music' bit was a bit of a giveaway - streaming Internet radio uses very little bandwidth and lots of people work better with music in the background.
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"that's why I quit my previous employer. The HR bitch at ABM was threatening to fire me if I didn't work off the clock and pay checks were usually quite late."
You fill out time cards anyways and turn them in with the overtime. make copies and send them and your pay stubs to the state.
HR bitch ends up fired, Company is fined a very significant amount of money and is forced to pay all back wages to all employees with interest.
If you keep your mouth quiet and act like a good slave they get away with this crap.
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Competent IT will put in Stream reflectors for the users.
We put that in place for the 10 top played internet radio streams in the company, the $200.00 linux servers connects, and then rebroadcasts the stream to up to 500 users.
So I have 500 people listening with the bandwidth overhead of 10.
But when the competent IT staff proposes this management says 'Why don't we just block the streaming sites on the firewall for free?"
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Complaining about having to answer AN email after hours might be silly, but if it becomes a regular part of your duties then you are effectively never off work. Enjoy answering AN email while your family is watching a movie, while your kid is in the school play, when everyone else is playing a game on the weekend, etc etc.
Why not take it to the logical next step. Perhaps you could take 2 or 3 hours worth of homework with you each night.
Fucking cowards. Stand up for yourselves,
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