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Union rules cause double time (2x pay) to kick in at lower daily and weekly thesholds than at non union jobs.
by faidit 29d ago
Union rules cause double time (2x pay) to kick in at lower daily and weekly thesholds than at non union jobs.
- QuercusMax 29d agoYou really think he was working 23 hours one day and then 15-16 for the rest of the week? That sounds like timecard padding to me. No way he's not spending a significant portion of the job asleep, unless he's severely abusing stimulants.
- blackjack_ 29d agoYeah this is “butt on chair” definition of working at best. I’ve worked 80 hour weeks, doing 15-16 hour days consecutively will obliterate you, and also hopefully you live upstairs because commute times start eating into your sleep time quickly
- cucumber3732842 29d agoThis. And his position of seniority in the union likely gets him close to first pick of the shifts and jobs that lend themselves best to this.
- QuercusMax 29d agoSomebody's gotta man the night shift at the empty lockup!
- a2tech 29d agoI agree that in this case its VERY likely to be fraud. However, there are many jobs where you might be stuck at work. Being at work == getting paid. Thats not really that shocking of a thing. My wife's dad worked at a children's 'training school' (kid jail) and they often had lock downs or were legally required to have certain number of people on site for certain operations. So he might be there and simply couldn't leave, but might not be 'working'. He was paid for those hours, which I think is pretty reasonable.
- tzs 29d agoDoing the job asleep is actually possible in some cities. There's a book called "Rough Justice: Days and Nights of a Young D.A." by David Heilbroner about his 3 years starting in 1985 as an assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney's office fresh out of law school. The new ADAs were started working on the vast number of minor crimes that occur daily in NY that result in an arrest but that will almost certainly end up resolved with just a fine after a short (a few minutes often) bench trial. The courts that handle these run 24 hours a day. The ADAs operate in shifts. He describes how when arriving for his shift he'd have to step over a large number of sleeping police officers in the hall. The officers are there either to give a statement to the ADA or to give a statement in court when the case of the person they arrested comes up. It can take many hours between arrest and an ADA starting to work on the case or it getting called in court so as soon as the officer finishes their regular work shift they come and wait at the ADAs office. That waiting time is on the clock and all overtime. He would often arrive for a morning shift and there would be officers who had been waiting since the end of the day shift the day before, or longer, if I remember correctly. Two or three of those in a week and an office could get a lot of overtime, most of it spent sleeping.
- datsci_est_2015 29d agoThe issue seems to be what's defined as "work", given the amount of time he claimed to work, and not necessarily how much he is paid per hour. Sitting in a cruiser playing candy crush counting as "work" is funny when you compare it to the fact that flight attendants only get paid for the time when the door is closed on a plane.
- SlightlyLeftPad 29d agoFlock will eventually be there to take that job too.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 29d agoThe police officers will still get paid though, even if the machines are doing the work.