Comment on The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 6 days agoit hasn’t been doubled my whole working career. though to be fair I’m only in my 30s. I am aware of a couple companies that did double time on Sundays, which predictably resulted in employees gaming the system to sit in the office on Sundays and watch Netflix.
“good” companies around here will pay overtime over your base hours, which is typically 40 hours. the legal minimum is to pay 1.5x regular rate after 44 hours. pretty much every company does the legal minimum of 1.5 times regular rate for overtime
yakko@feddit.uk 6 days ago
I’m used to it being morethat overtime was not allowed unless explicitly requested of you. Unapproved overtime was verboten! How times changed.
tmyakal@infosec.pub 5 days ago
Different companies have different policies based on their needs. I worked at a factory that couldn’t get enough skilled labor in the door, so they instituted mandatory overtime for two years: everyone had the option of 5 days at 10 hours or 6 days at 8.5 hours. Everything beyond 40 was time-and-a-half, but if you didn’t work at least 50 hours in a week, you got written up.
Some people absolutely loved it because it was “extra” money, but a lot more left for other factories, only exacerbating the problem.
yakko@feddit.uk 5 days ago
You know how easy it would be to unionize a workplace as chronically understaffed as that? Holy shit
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
automation industry is a bit different when not in a recession. over time is almost always available. every project could get done sooner, especially with automotive customers