I forced the company I worked at two years ago to switch all of their employees to hourly because of what is clearly defined in section 515.5 CA labor code.
The problem is that most employees don't meet the salary requirement to be classified as exempt. The other problem is that there have been a number of lawsuits recently regarding this and Google is just trying to protect themselves.
I am strongly of the opinion that we should all get paid for every hour that we work. Because of the industry that we are in, I'm sure the majority of us have had to work extra hours and never got paid for it. In a sense, this is a good thing but...
The unfortunate flip side is that even though you may be making more money due to OT, the quality of life at work inevitably begins to deteriorate. If most companies are going to go down the road of turning their IT staff into hourly employees, the only solution to preserve the benefits and flexibility that comes with most sys-admin and programming jobs is to unionize. It's only through collective bargaining that we can retain or regain benefits that will soon begin to widdle away from this change in status.
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I forced the company I worked at two years ago to switch all of their employees to hourly because of what is clearly defined in section 515.5 CA labor code.
The problem is that most employees don't meet the salary requirement to be classified as exempt. The other problem is that there have been a number of lawsuits recently regarding this and Google is just trying to protect themselves.
I am strongly of the opinion that we should all get paid for every hour that we work. Because of the industry that we are in, I'm sure the majority of us have had to work extra hours and never got paid for it. In a sense, this is a good thing but...
The unfortunate flip side is that even though you may be making more money due to OT, the quality of life at work inevitably begins to deteriorate. If most companies are going to go down the road of turning their IT staff into hourly employees, the only solution to preserve the benefits and flexibility that comes with most sys-admin and programming jobs is to unionize. It's only through collective bargaining that we can retain or regain benefits that will soon begin to widdle away from this change in status.