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In the western game industry this is called slow week.
by venomsnake 10y ago
In the western game industry this is called slow week.
- gcb0 10y agoeveryone forgets the usa has no labor laws or unions either. well there's a couple legacy unions that survived the smearing campaign over the decades trying to associate then with crime... but none in silicon valley, that's for sure.
- argonaut 10y agoYou are only right the USA has no unions for tech. In other industries unions are still there (public sector and manufacturing mostly). The USA has labor laws, and they are enforced. And they affect Silicon Valley worker lives daily. Non-competes are near-unenforceable in California because of California labor law. There was also a thread a while back about how CA law allows you to retain IP over side-projects unrelated to your employer's business, regardless of what your contract says.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> The USA has labor laws, and they are enforced Some of them. Lots of programmers are misclassified as FLSA exempt when they don't meet the standards for such exemption, but because of lack of organization and because of the status signalling that goes with FLSA exemption, they rarely challenge this, so it's poorly enforced.
- argonaut 10y agoI've almost never seen a programmer in SV whose job duties and pay mean they fall under FLSA. What are you referring to? Maybe a student programmer, I guess.
- dragonwriter 10y agoSorry, I meant the California equivalent (the salary threshold under the computer professions exemption under FLSA is stunningly low, less than $24K/yr; the state version of the exemption for computing professions has a floor close to $90K/yr.)