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If that's what 60 hours of their work is worth, no stroke of a pen is going to change how much money they make.
Don't be naive.
Have you even taken a freshman level econ class?
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If that's what 60 hours of their work is worth, no stroke of a pen is going to change how much money they make.
If that's what 60 hours of their work is worth, no stroke of a pen is going to change how much money they make.
But even that doesn't "screw" the manager, because he or she will get paid the same amount and work 20 hours less. The manager can devote that time to another job if they need to make more money, or enjoy their lives a little bit more if they're comfortable with their $40k/year.Of course they could also screw that manager out of her overtime and hire another person to handle the additional 20 hours of work that presumably needs to be done. But I sincerely doubt her company is going to cut her pay 50 pct. to make up the difference.
Newspapers have abused overtime and other labor regulations forever, mostly by allowing/counting on eager journalists to abuse themselves. Workers are often their own worst enemies with respect to this sort of thing. All the free overtime used to drive me nuts when I was a union rep. The folks who provide free overtime undermine their co-workers.
I agree, but those writers working for free because it's fun to cover a game are still doing themselves and their co-workers a disservice.Journalists -- especially writers -- generally like their jobs and like the work. So they are willing to squeeze in covering a game on Saturday as part of their 40-hour week as a polite fiction.
An assistant manager at Aunt Annie's pretzels who makes 26K a year and was expected to often work six days a week on the path to being a manager may not be so eager to show up for free on Saturday.
... [the manager] will get paid the same amount and work 20 hours less. The manager can devote that time to another job if they need to make more money, or enjoy their lives a little bit more if they're comfortable with their $40k/year.
You really believe that manager, whose current 60-hour week commands $26K in cash compensation, will, absent anything other than this regulatory change, continue to make that for a 40-hour workweek? Or that if that manager continues to work a 60-hour workweek, he or she will now be compensated to the tune of $45.5K (which would be $26K for the regular time and $19.5K)? You really believe that?
You really believe that manager, whose current 60-hour week commands $26K in cash compensation, will, absent anything other than this regulatory change, continue to make that for a 40-hour workweek? Or that if that manager continues to work a 60-hour workweek, he or she will now be compensated to the tune of $45.5K (which would be $26K for the regular time and $19.5K)? You really believe that?