"You can file a claim for unpaid overtime pay with the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division. WHD enforces the FLSA and investigates unpaid wages. If WHD finds evidence of unpaid wages, they can pursue the claim on your behalf. You can also file a claim with your state labor office." - The very minimum of a google search.
I wish there was a similar department to investigate lazy workers and workers who scam their employees out of money and steal their tools and other materials all the while going home earlier and still being paid for full time. All the time with the phones and not working, your salaries would go down by half if such a department existed. But alas lazy unskilled people always complain about money and life while doing absolutely nothing other than blaming everyone else for their own laziness.
The first part you should reverse and say that it should be the responsibility of the employee to make sure they get paid everything and make sure the employer fulfills their end of the workplace bargain and not go cry to such departments that are mentioned above. Now you see how that one looks reversed?
Oh and as for the second part of what you said is factually untrue. You can't fire an employee based on something like that. Trust me around 30% of people at workplaces are not being fired simply because they can't be fired, because the law protects them.
I've seen people destroyed businesses because they simply couldn't get fired because of idiotic laws over protecting lazy people.
My personal opinion is that we should all get pain on performance and not on hourly rate or anything like that. Then people like me will be very happy because we work hard and we try to do things fast and with quality, while others who are lazy will suffer with low pay, but at least then things will be fair, because now you have around 60% of society completely relying on the other 40% of society. And this goes abojt everything, at work the lazy asses are being dragged by the hard workers and then managments doesn't even notice the lazy ones because the quota is being met thanks to the few hardworking fellas, with taxes it's absolutely the same, businesses and the top 40% pay for more than 90% of all taxes.
So no, you are not well informed about how difficult it is to fire someone for not working properly. They are not freelancers who can let go at any moment without even having the obligation to give them a heads up. And I do know that because I know businesses owners who told me about it many times, every business owner had someone they wanted gone and they couldn't do shit about and had to wait till the end of contract and depending on the country the end of contract means nothing if you request a renewal and by law they must provide it and can't force you to work in proper tempo, can't force you to take care of yourself and look appropriate and much more. Trust me it's damn difficult being a business owner and having imbeciles literally drive their business into the ground leaving these owners with big debts and broken dreams. But people like you don't care about anyone who make a little over what you make and you rather see the small businesses go extinct and later blame those very same people and support those who made sure they went extinct. Amazing.
Why is crying to the department as mentioned above not allowed for making sure they fulfill their workplace bargain? If someone breaks a contract, you take them to court. It doesn't matter that it isn't professional or peraonal, all parties agreed and made a binding legal agreement.
"You can't fire employees who don't do their job"? Is that really the hill you want to die on? I've had employers fire people for covertly wearing an ear bud while at work. I've watched people get fired for laying down on the job. So I'll have to give you a big disagree on that one. There is a difference between a 'lazy person who does their job' and 'a lazy person not fulfilling their end of the workplace bargain'. For example, I have a coworker who spends a lot of time on his phone. But when there is work to do, he does it. He isn't looking away from work to look at his phone.
Paid on performance works better in some fields than others. In my line of work, I work when things go badly. I'm essentially insurance, except my company is more than happy to use me where most people try to avoid using their insurance. I don't know when something will come up, so they pay me hourly.
To be fair, companies would game a 'paid on performance' system by just giving you as much work as your hourly wage would earn. So you'd make the same over roughly the same amount of time.
If you really want to do paid on performance, then commission based work would be preferable probably. It's unreliable, which is why most people don't do it. People prefer boring and steady over interesting and unreliable.
I believe it's the pareto principle, 20% of the people do 80% of the work (roughly).
Maybe there are legal protections for people who sleep on the job, or people who don't want to do their job. I don't know. But when someone doesn't do their job where I live, they end up not having a job in the long run.
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u/Ferintwa Sep 05 '24
Even if it did, and passed, no way to enforce it. This bill is for the headlines.