• ieatpillowtags@lemm.eeEnglish
    59·
    24 hours ago

    “Give you time off”, like just not scheduling you do you don’t get paid. Abuse for real!!

    • FlexibleToast@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      23 hours ago

      No, it’s avoiding paying overtime for when they had you work overtime… Here, I’ll be even more explicit for you. Imagine your company has an event and has you work 60 hours one week, but then only gives you 20 hours the next week. You worked 20 hours of overtime in the first week, but they then avoided paying you overtime by giving you less time the second week. Do you not see how averaging out the time over a longer period is in the interest of the company and not the worker?

      • DeviantOvary@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        15 hours ago

        So kind of like in Austria, but not as bad. The overtime cap is 70 hours (total, and does not get wiped each month) before you can start getting paid for each extra overtime hour. But the tax eats enough of it, that many people just exchange it for days off before they reach 70 hours. Or just work longer hours Mon-Thu and work shorter Fridays – of course, this doesn’t work for all job positions. I don’t think employers are legally allowed to force the workers to use up that overtime, and there is a legal daily limit, but how it works in my company, we just transfer those hours to another day instead, so people can still work over that limit regardless.

      • ieatpillowtags@lemm.eeEnglish
        41·
        22 hours ago

        I realize now my comment could be taken both ways, but I agree with you. They’ll get around the overtime requirement by giving you “time off”, that you won’t be paid for.

        So you suffer your 12 hours day, and then they just take you off the schedule for a day later, which also fucks your over.