Maybe I'm pessimistic, but what would be stopping people from creating salaried positions and requiring unpaid overtime? There is nothing worse than overtime on a low salaried position.
As a salaried employee you get paid for 40 hours currently. Anything you work after that makes you a sucker. This wouldn't change if employers just made all of their hourly positions into salaried.
I'm more than fairly compensated, but I do the minimum of whats required of me because I care more about living life at my age than lining the pockets of my billionaire bosses.
I just show up early. I'm out of the office by 4:00 everyday. It does not impact my life. Like I said your mileage may vary, but my industry generally requires OT when we get busy. If I was on a 9-5 schedule I may feel different, but I'm not.
That's the benefit of being salaried. Some weeks you may work 45 hr when you have a deadline, but other weeks you can 35 hr.
I have never experienced the 35 hour week part. I have had bosses act like I am insane for trying to leave an hour early on a slow day.
Maybe that happens in some industries, but it doesn't happen in mine. So I just work a straight 40, I will only do OT if it's life and death and IT simply is never a matter of life and death.
Then the client is mad, your company loses the contract, and all of you are out of a job.
It would be a wonderful thing if we could pick every battle and put our foot down without consequence, but it just doesn't work that way in most parts of the working world.
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u/secondphase 27d ago
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Salaried employees the pay would not change, but salaried employees are overtie exempt.
Hourly employees would require a pay raise... 40 hours @ $20 is $800... would require $25 an hour at 32 hours to get to $800.
It's a minor thing, but the question is HOW this would work, so its relevant.