I work in New Jersey, just outside Manhattan. (In fact, I can see the Lincoln Tunnel from one of the windows in the building.) I'm a contractor. As the result of Federal law, I don't GET overtime pay.
That's right. Instead of overtime, I get straight time. So, the fact I came in this weekend and worked for six hours on Saturday means I get 46 hours at straight time. No OT pay. No time-and-a-half. None of it.
If you look at that article, it mentions the federal laws that deal with overtime. Those are the ones that gut you. I make $35,000 before taxes. That exceeds the cap for contract workers, and makes your employer exempt from having to pay you for overtime.
We don't need to change the California laws, we need to change the FEDERAL laws.
Will it be free? Who cares? If he wants it to be free, that's great. But this act alone puts a brick in the craw of a few people. Two friends of mine have a 'interest' in Linux, but put it off because 'there aren't any decent games for it'. Now we have Myth II.
This and Q3:A are the opening salvos in the MCA War that's coming (MCA = Mass Consumer Acceptance). We need to do one of two more things to make it work out.
kick the card makers a little more for the specs so drivers get out better for some of those nifty cards (IS there a Voodoo3 driver yet? Gotta check...)
2) improve the ease of installing new drivers. Until Linux can do the pop-in-the-disk-and-answer-questions, Wintel has the advantage in the MCA War.
(Hey, I'd personally love to see Mechwarrior III on Linux...)
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I work in New Jersey, just outside Manhattan. (In fact, I can see the Lincoln Tunnel from one of the windows in the building.) I'm a contractor. As the result of Federal law, I don't GET overtime pay.
That's right. Instead of overtime, I get straight time. So, the fact I came in this weekend and worked for six hours on Saturday means I get 46 hours at straight time. No OT pay. No time-and-a-half. None of it.
If you look at that article, it mentions the federal laws that deal with overtime. Those are the ones that gut you. I make $35,000 before taxes. That exceeds the cap for contract workers, and makes your employer exempt from having to pay you for overtime.
We don't need to change the California laws, we need to change the FEDERAL laws.
We could also add in other crossovers. For example:
Just a few of the ideas. But no crossovers between pre-med and science fiction. After all, I'm an SF major, not a doctor!
Will it be free? Who cares? If he wants it to be free, that's great. But this act alone puts a brick in the craw of a few people. Two friends of mine have a 'interest' in Linux, but put it off because 'there aren't any decent games for it'. Now we have Myth II.
This and Q3:A are the opening salvos in the MCA War that's coming (MCA = Mass Consumer Acceptance). We need to do one of two more things to make it work out.
(Hey, I'd personally love to see Mechwarrior III on Linux...)