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Coleman

(949 posts)

7. Foreign companies loot us as well

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Fri Jul 3, 2020, 11:25 AM

Jul 2020

I live in Orlando, my wife work for the US branch of a French company. European companies love salaried (exempt) US employees. They get to work them to death at no extra labor costs. My wife puts in 60 to 70 hours a week. They also don't care about holidays, she is working today. They love the labor laws for exempt employees in the US. She does get 3 weeks leave. So far each year she uses from 3 to 5 days, she can only accrue 4 weeks total, thus she loses about 2 weeks of leave a year.