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- From: mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman)
- Subject: Re: GM Plant Closures Again? Won't Solve the Economic Problems
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.202420.14043@oracle.us.oracle.com>
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- References: <1992Dec10.010753.10523@xsoft.xerox.com> <1992Dec14.185844.6519@oracle.us.oracle.com> <1992Dec16.233506.4160@xsoft.xerox.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:24:20 GMT
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- at Oracle Corporation. The opinions expressed are those
- of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.
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- In article <1992Dec16.233506.4160@xsoft.xerox.com> gorelik@xsoft.xerox.com (Mike Gorelik) writes:
- >In <1992Dec14.185844.6519@oracle.us.oracle.com>, mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman) writes:
- >|> In <1992Dec10.010753.10523@xsoft.xerox.com> gorelik@xsoft.xerox.com (Mike Gorelik) writes:
- >|> >In <1992Dec9.225007.8348@hal.com>, bobp@hal.com (Bob Pendleton) writes:
- >|>
- >|>
- >|> >|> But let me decide if I want to work 80 hours a week or not.
- >|>
- >|> >If you want it, fine. But what if you want to work 40 hours
- >|> >and your employer wants you for 80? For 40 hours pay. Than what?
- >|>
- >|> Same as if he wants me to work for 40 hours but only get 20 hours pay
- >|> - I say no. This sanction seems to work quite adequately already.
-
- >I'm glad your job is secure, I really do. What about people who are not
- >so fortunate? Should employer have power to work them any number of hours?
-
- Mr. Gorelik, perhaps you have reading comprehension problems. Today,
- except for employees who make less then double the minimum wage (a
- pretty small minority) employers can demand that they work forty hours
- for twenty hours pay. This does not happen. Why? Becasue the
- employees will quit. Can you explain why this sanction will not also
- work for your 80 hours for 40 hours pay example?
-
- >|> >How about a law about time and half overtime pay? I bet you would hate
- >|> >to take home 2.5 times your regular paycheck for your 80 hours weeks.
-
- >|> Cute idea.
-
- >Thank you, it is not mine. Some places in this country, many (most, all?) corps
- >in Japan pay overtime to all non-management employees.
-
- >|> Only one problem - if you aren't being seriously
- >|> underpaid,
-
- >Compare to what?
-
- Compared to the benefit the company receives from your services.
-
- >|> time and a half makes you a bad deal.
-
- >Why we pay $10 for overnight delivery? It is a bad deal compare to a
- >regular 29c letter, no? Overtime work is something unusual and
- >sudden, a premium over standard wage rate is, usually or should be,
- >justified. For an employer to get that extra service for free is a
- >steal-deal, as with all free services it is being overused and misused.
-
- Mike, I really wish I had some of what you're smoking.
-
- 1. The $10.000 overnight delivery is a significantly differnet
- service from the 29c letter.
-
- 2. Overtime work is often not sudden. I once worked for a company
- where we fudged the books by agreement. I worked fifty hours. My
- time sheets said forty. I got a 20% raise. Great deal for both of
- us. Totally illegal.
-
- 3. You claim that employers are getting overtime for free. This is
- totally untrue - they need to pay for it. Doing otherwise is illegal.
-
- 4. Talk to some of the hourly people at Xerox. Most of them will tell
- you that they are not allowed to put in more than a 40 hour week.
- Some will be happy with that. Others will tell you that they would
- work 45 or 50 if they could - they need the money. Unfortunately,
- their extra service is not worth time and a half to Xerox and good old
- Uncle Sam won't let them cut their own deal.
-
- >|> At Oracle, hourly
- >|> employees need to get special permission to work over 40 hours a week.
- >|> Usually they don't get it because the work they do isn't worth 1.5
- >|> times their base salary
-
- >Or there is a line of people ready to fill additional positions at
- >the company and
- >do that work for the base salary.
-
- Oh sure, but what's your point? We would much rather have four people
- working 50 than five working 40. We would be happy to accomodate them
- if it wasn't for the labor laws.
-
- >|> - if it was we would be paying them that much base.
-
- >Most businesses are not as humane and people caring as Oracle apparently is.
- >Most businesses set pay based on labor market situation subject to
- >business and regulatory constrains.
-
- Of course. That's the definition of what a job is worth.
-
- >It is likely that some
- >Oracle employees in the developing countries produce as much
- >for company as US based employees, yet Oracle pays them
- >wages which are set locally.
-
- Of course. What's your point? They aren't worth more. Why? Because
- we can get equivalent services for what we pay.
-
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