Where hourly workers are not paid for their lunch hour, the employee is there for 9 hours, not 8. It’s a legal slight of hand. A company defines a work week as 32 hours (4 days) so they can classify those workers as part-time but they are really expected to work 40 hours (5 days). I think this is the UAWs way of calling attention to what should be an illegal practice IMO. Saying they should be paid OT for anything over the defined work week of 32 hours makes sense in that light--companies skirt a lot of labor and other law obligations by classifying them as part-time and the employees don’t get benefit of those protections or company obligations.
That’s why I’d love to see journalists inform the public better about the company’s labor practices at places that both want to form unions and where unions strike. There are so few of them, and so many salaried employees reading about strikes it would good for us all to get a refresher on how things work today, not when we were whippersnappers :-)
It’s good to remind ourselves that anything the UAW gets covers all hourly employees, even if they are not members of the union. They’re not just fighting for themselves.
I figured that the forty hours pay for thirty two hours of work involved not having to punch out for an hour lunch break. Maybe I'm wrong.
Where hourly workers are not paid for their lunch hour, the employee is there for 9 hours, not 8. It’s a legal slight of hand. A company defines a work week as 32 hours (4 days) so they can classify those workers as part-time but they are really expected to work 40 hours (5 days). I think this is the UAWs way of calling attention to what should be an illegal practice IMO. Saying they should be paid OT for anything over the defined work week of 32 hours makes sense in that light--companies skirt a lot of labor and other law obligations by classifying them as part-time and the employees don’t get benefit of those protections or company obligations.
That’s why I’d love to see journalists inform the public better about the company’s labor practices at places that both want to form unions and where unions strike. There are so few of them, and so many salaried employees reading about strikes it would good for us all to get a refresher on how things work today, not when we were whippersnappers :-)
It’s good to remind ourselves that anything the UAW gets covers all hourly employees, even if they are not members of the union. They’re not just fighting for themselves.