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In reply to the discussion: Unemployable At 50 Fate Of Present And Future Workers [View all]socialindependocrat
(1,372 posts)Also, the corporations are declaring lower level employees as being "exempt" from overtime pay. Supposedly these employees are paid an extra amount in order to compensate them for any time they need to work in excess of 40hrs/week.
Now, especially with the Information Tech people they are being declared "exempt" and then are worked for long hours and required to do "transparent upgrades to the system" which may require that they work thru the night in order to accomplish the task. These people are really being abused.
So we go from working 16 hours a day to working 8 and then being declared to be "exempt" from overtime and back to working 16 hours a day. Now, this isn't every day but the IT people are always answering questions and getting people out of trouble with their computers and they carry their cell phones and are "on call" around the clock in some instances.