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[–] 3 points 3 days ago (11 children)

Your pay doesn't stop when you're on salary.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 child)

    You assume minimum wage workers like me get a salary lol

    Edit: in the uk, if your total pay divided by your total hours falls below minimum wage, then yes, your pay stopped and you still worked. From my management colleagues who were on salary, they still had a set number of hours they worked per week.

    Strangely enough the deputy manager who worked twice my hours got twice my takehome pay, despite that I was just a sales assistant.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago (7 children)

    It does stop when your shift ends.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (6 children)

    Your shift doesn't have set start and end times when you're on salary. You might work 40 hours one week but 54 hours the next week, and maybe 34 hours another week. For the same amount of money.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    In developed countries, your salary is for a fixed week of working hours. So if my shift is 6-14 monday-friday, I work for that time. Anything outside that is considered overtime and strictly regulated. People also have the right to refuse work calls after their shift ends.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    That's not how it works in the US. But you could argue we aren't a developed country anymore since Trump came into power.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago* (1 child)

    What? No. I have work hours in my contract, if I work over that I get overtime. What contract do you on?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    Most salaried people in the US have hours on paper but are coerced into working more. I'm theoretically supposed to work 40 hours per week, but if the production line is down they beg me to come in. I can say no, but the people who say no don't get promoted, and when layoff season starts, they're the first on the chopping block.

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