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It will be difficult to get more than 8 hours a day? OK. What's the point of more than 8 hours a day beforehand if you weren't paid?
by kevin_b_er 10y ago
It will be difficult to get more than 8 hours a day? OK. What's the point of more than 8 hours a day beforehand if you weren't paid?
- karmicthreat 10y agoThey were probably paid, just regular time. Not 1.5x which is the normal standard for hourly work.
- qq66 10y agoAh, I see the problem. A lot of people here don't know what "overtime" means. "Not getting overtime" doesn't mean you aren't paid for your 9th hour, you're just paid it at your regular wage. "Getting overtime" means getting a higher hourly wage for hours over 8/40.
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- mdorazio 10y agoBecause if you worked more than 8 hours before, you were still paid for the extra hours, just not overtime pay (1.5x the normal rate). Now, these workers won't be able to work those extra hours at all and it's unclear if they will be able to work additional shifts at other farms to make up the difference. This is similar to how state-mandated benefits for workers working a certain number of hours just led to managers at places like Walmart cutting shifts so that workers work just under the threshold. The net result is that workers are often worse off since they don't make as much as they did before and they don't get the benefits.