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This absolutely still happens in CA despite laws preventing it. Are you sure CA has laws against it?
If you're salaried you're responsible not for hours but for getting work done. Unfortunately many, most even, employers are too stupid to get away from the 40 hour model and fail to realize that most people may have 3 or 4 60 hour weeks but then, when the project is done, may have a 20 hour week. Some companies let you stay at home the other 20. Others mandate you sit in a chair for them even if there's no work as of yet.
But if you're salaried there's no 40 hour maximum. There's no overtime. Get your job done or get a new job. The flip side of that is that no company can expect to keep productive employees, nor can it expect to keep any employees, nor can it expect to recruit top talent. It's a trade-off. One of the projects I just finished was on this exact topic (and, for the record, I put in several 70 hour weeks doing it.) Bottom line: better to err on the side of being too lenient and firing employees that take advantage then treating them like children.
But we have no tight deadlines and a steady stream of income. Neither things are luxuries the entertainment industry has. |
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Dec 21, 11:47 |
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Dec 21, 11:52 |
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Dec 21, 14:11 |
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Dec 21, 14:17 |
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Dec 21, 11:17 |
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Dec 21, 11:27 |
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Dec 21, 11:59 |
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Dec 21, 12:09 |
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Dec 21, 12:36 |
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Dec 21, 12:10 |
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Dec 21, 12:24 |
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Dec 21, 21:02 |
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Dec 21, 11:16 |
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Dec 21, 11:23 |
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Dec 21, 11:41 |
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Dec 21, 13:23 |
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Dec 21, 13:46 |
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Dec 21, 14:06 |
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Dec 21, 14:10 |
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Dec 21, 14:15 |
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Dec 21, 14:18 |
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Dec 21, 14:51 |
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Dec 21, 15:05 |
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Dec 21, 14:59 |
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Dec 21, 15:00 |
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Dec 21, 15:47 |
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Dec 21, 18:23 |
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Dec 21, 19:59 |
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Dec 21, 20:59 |
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Dec 27, 12:14 |
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Dec 21, 15:48 |
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Dec 21, 16:01 |
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Dec 21, 16:10 |
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Dec 21, 16:24 |
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Dec 21, 16:47 |
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Dec 21, 20:50 |
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