Current Events > Why aren't 6 or more consecutive work days illegal?

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They can literally schedule you up to 10 days in a row without having to pay overtime.

Thats a states rights issue so blame republicans. California requires OT pay.

Well what about people who WANT to work that much

You could just say no

The fact that it's all mandatory pisses me off. Im sorry the workplace is understaffed, but that has nothing to do with me.

Cotton_Eye_Joe posted...

They can literally schedule you up to 10 days in a row without having to pay overtime.

I'd never take a job that doesn't pay overtime. I'd have to be desperate as fuck to even consider it.

Jobs usually tell you upfront what the hours and pay will be like. It's up to the people to tell them to fuck off and stop enabling this

TheVipaGTS posted...

Thats a states rights issue so blame republicans. California requires OT pay.

Even in California you can work many days in a row without OT. The laws specify hours/days worked in a work week. If they give you your days off at the start of this work week and then your days off at the end of the next work week, that can still be 10 days in a row with only 40 hours in each of those two work weeks.

I live in CA and used to have a job with a schedule that changed on a semi regular basis and my employer regularly tried to work me 9 consecutive days that would not have resulted in OT because I technically wasn't working more than 40 hours in each work week. I said fuck that and got myself a new employer.

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It sucks how salary people can get screwed when it comes to not getting extra for the hours worked. I was thinking more along the lines of hourly employees who don't make as much generally.

At my previous job there were people who worked 7 days a week for the whole 4 months I was there. They did get overtime but I'm not sure how they tolerated it. At the current job there's a new area that's sometimes stuck there for 15 hours a day which I definitely think should be illegal

Some people like different schedules. I'd rather work 7 6ish hour shifts in a row than get full days off. It gives me a large portion of the day to do whatever the fuck I want instead of trying to cram it into the weekend. Other people would rather work 4 ten hour shifts and get 3 full days off. Just find a place with hours that work for you.

Because you need to work for 20+ days in a row to even be close to achieving the 'MERICAN DREAM.

I've worked 92 straight before and 159 in a 160 day stretch but my company has a pretty nice overtime policy so it was all voluntary during an extremely tumultuous period of life.

I've worked 29 in a row before. It sucked, but I didn't care either. I've worked 20 hr shifts 2 - 3 days in a row at times, but the things I own and the financial comfort I have, and free time I'll eventually have make up for it all. I'd be so unhappy if I was working as a minimum wage grunt, so I'm fine working absurd schedules, if I'm getting well-compensated for it, like I am now.