Repub scum bring us one step closer to proper wage slavery.

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Re: Repub scum bring us one step closer to proper wage slavery.

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Imperial528 wrote:
Crazedwraith wrote:What makes getting time-in-lieu instead of overtime pay, wage slavery?
The fact that many states allow employers to arbitrarily dictate when your paid time off is used, which means that even though you are technically earning a form of extra pay for the overtime, you are not guaranteed to receive any of it.
We already work like that.

The lieu time has to be given back within the financial year.
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Re: Repub scum bring us one step closer to proper wage slavery.

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Vendetta wrote:
Imperial528 wrote:
Crazedwraith wrote:What makes getting time-in-lieu instead of overtime pay, wage slavery?
The fact that many states allow employers to arbitrarily dictate when your paid time off is used, which means that even though you are technically earning a form of extra pay for the overtime, you are not guaranteed to receive any of it.
We already work like that.

The lieu time has to be given back within the financial year.
Which is also what this law requires, if people would bother to read it.
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