I worked for IBM Global Services many years ago. They were trying to pull this kind of mandatory overtime crap when I quit in 1997.
This seems like an attempt to circumvent labor laws. IANAL. In any event, it skirts the mutual understanding between you and your employer when the salary offer is made: the annualized figure is based on a standardized number of work hours per year, which is calculated from a 40-hour work week. Requiring 15% overtime (46 hours per week, or over an hour a day) amounts to a de facto pay cut. Put another way, if any hours worked beyond 8 in one day are worth time and a half, then your paycheck should be 22.5% bigger. IBM, if your pay and benefits aren't 22.5% higher than the competitive benchmark for this position, than you're SOL.
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I worked for IBM Global Services many years ago. They were trying to pull this kind of mandatory overtime crap when I quit in 1997.
This seems like an attempt to circumvent labor laws. IANAL. In any event, it skirts the mutual understanding between you and your employer when the salary offer is made: the annualized figure is based on a standardized number of work hours per year, which is calculated from a 40-hour work week. Requiring 15% overtime (46 hours per week, or over an hour a day) amounts to a de facto pay cut. Put another way, if any hours worked beyond 8 in one day are worth time and a half, then your paycheck should be 22.5% bigger. IBM, if your pay and benefits aren't 22.5% higher than the competitive benchmark for this position, than you're SOL.
This is such a sneaky, underhanded tactic. Boo!