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> "Unlike the cleaning staff, who can "be shown the door if that's how they feel about it."" Cleaning staff are (overwhelmingly) entitled to overtime pay, by l
by roc 12y ago
> "Unlike the cleaning staff, who can "be shown the door if that's how they feel about it.""
Cleaning staff are (overwhelmingly) entitled to overtime pay, by law.
- logicallee 12y agoyes, that is my point. they're entitled to it precisely because they're not in a position to demand it. (according to this possible logic.)
- roc 12y agoI guess I didn't recognize your point, because I don't see a huge discrepancy in ability-to-demand overtime, between cleaning people and technology staff. Tech workers are more-well-paid than the cleaning staff and generally better situated to negotiate for any given job. But I don't see how that necessarily carries over to increased success in negotiating payment schemes that differ from the legal and industry standard for the position.
- dpritchett 12y agoI think the point was that a regulator would be more sympathetically inclined to 'protect' the cleaning workers by legally mandating overtime since they necessarily have less negotiating leverage than white-collar workers.