Every industry is full of non-technical hills that people plant their flag on. What is yours?
(The other post was technical hills. I changed the question to non-technical.)
Every industry is full of non-technical hills that people plant their flag on. What is yours?
(The other post was technical hills. I changed the question to non-technical.)
Crazy that paying overtime is cheaper long term.
Not really.
Salaried employees don’t get time and a half pay for overtime, but many companies will offer straight time over 40 hours as an inducement to work OT.
The cost of insurance, benefits, equipment, rent, and overhead staff to support people gets spread over more hours, so the effective overhead rate drops and the company makes more money per extra hour worked.
In some industries, the support costs are so high it is cheaper to pay time and a half than it is to pay the overhead costs for a new employee.
In my case it’s hourly wage. Union, we get double pay on overtime plus meal allowance.
I just value free time more than that.
In Canada (or BC anyway) they need to pay the time and a half, and there’s technically no such thing as salaried. If you work over 40 even if you’re on salary, it’s over time at 1.5x.
However, there is a clause in BC at least that says high tech workers are exempt from the 1.5x rate for overtime.
It’s utter bullshit. Discriminated against in written law.
Wow TIL