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Re: LAWS NEED TO BE CHANGED FOR OVERTIME.

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From: TA-Raker
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 21:37
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Jeez, I don't seriously work more than 20 or 30 hours a week.

Your doing something seriously wrong.



"Bulldozer" <bulldozer@doomsdayNOSPAM.com> wrote in message
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> CAN I HAVE YOUR JOB?
>
> "Shamish" <shchartudi@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:u4mbrb9jrr6r60@corp.supernews.com...
> > I'm in the computer field. I think its time the fed. govt stepped in and
> > regulated all of this free labor companies are getting. 50, 60,
sometimes
> 70
> > hour weeks or more. All for the same salary as a 40 hour week. If you
> refuse
> > to work over, you get fired. If you take off early, your frowned upon.
> There
> > is something seriously wrong with that picture.
> >
> > I ask you. Why in the F**C should I give my time to a business for free?
A
> > business that, as we all know by the hundreds of thousands of recent
> > layoffs, couldn't care less about anything but their own pockets. Can
you
> > say Enron, Ford, AA, etc. Why? What have these companies done to deserve
> > taking a chunk out of my life that doesn't belong to them. They are not
> > paying for it. They just take it for free.
> >
> > And, due to the massive layoffs, this epidemic of employees doing the
work
> > of three people is growing. It should not be allowed to continue. Now
> > companies are even laying off people who have been working 70 hours a
week
> > anyway! Instead of laying them off. They should have just told the
> employee.
> > We will let you stay at work 30 hours per week for free, but anything
over
> > that you are not allowed to come in. That's how ridiculous this
situation
> > is. These companies are getting away with corporate robbery!
> >
> > Anything over 40 hours should be paid for. A good service for a good
wage.
> >
> > CHANGE THE EMPLOYMENT LAWS!!!!
> >
> > Disclaimer: I know this is better than being out of work as many of you
> are.
> > So please hold your flames. But just because something is 'better,'
still
> > doesn't make it right.
> >
> >
>
>
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