Same in every industry. Food industry is especially bad. Hell, I grew up on a farm in the US and we were free labor for our parents, but we wouldn’t have survived elsewise.
in parts of the US. if you want to be paid fairly in food service (and still complain about being paid unfairly because (1) no one is paid fairly in this HCOLA so technically yeah and (2) outside of payroll no one knows you’re lying) move to california. Minimum wage, pre tips, is $16.90/hr. All you tech workers probably don’t think a thing about it because your minimum wage is $27.63 (apologies but i can’t find the exact authoritative source, but this is close enough. look for the words “standard wage”) and has been higher than any other minimum wage in the US since computer workers legally existed.
The source you are quoting is a US law that says tech workers don’t qualify to get paid overtime if they are on salary or if they are paid more than $27.63/hour. This has nothing to do with minimum wage, this is a law specifically made to not pay developers overtime for crunch.
I think you are misreading this rule. This allows an exemption to the time and a half pay minimum for overtime for highly paid people in a computer related field whose job duties are sufficiently executive or administrative in nature. If they are very highly paid (~$150,000 per year) the exemption is easier to qualify for.
The referenced section of the FLSA exclusively reduces the wage protections of people exempted under its rules.
i didn’t look too close at the rule i was finding as it’s been a while, but there’s a minimum wage for computer workers at which their employers are exempted from being required to give them certain benefits. I don’t see the financial logic in paying them less than that wage, but i never employed a ton of computer workers. it’s an effective minimum wage without being a minimum wage. de jure versus de facto
Yeah but the waiters don’t have a living wage in the us without tips while the fishermen get paid –
Sorry I just got word that the fishermen are actually just permanently trapped on the ships and do forced labour out somewhere in the Pacific
there is slavery in the food industry.
Sometimes it’s children too
Same in every industry. Food industry is especially bad. Hell, I grew up on a farm in the US and we were free labor for our parents, but we wouldn’t have survived elsewise.
in parts of the US. if you want to be paid fairly in food service (and still complain about being paid unfairly because (1) no one is paid fairly in this HCOLA so technically yeah and (2) outside of payroll no one knows you’re lying) move to california. Minimum wage, pre tips, is $16.90/hr. All you tech workers probably don’t think a thing about it because your minimum wage is $27.63 (apologies but i can’t find the exact authoritative source, but this is close enough. look for the words “standard wage”) and has been higher than any other minimum wage in the US since computer workers legally existed.
edit: A. always forget the A
The source you are quoting is a US law that says tech workers don’t qualify to get paid overtime if they are on salary or if they are paid more than $27.63/hour. This has nothing to do with minimum wage, this is a law specifically made to not pay developers overtime for crunch.
There are several more qualifications for it, but most jobs ignore those and most workers don’t know them well enough to not get ripped off.
Or can afford to hire a lawyer to go after the company that employs them for wage theft.
I think you are misreading this rule. This allows an exemption to the time and a half pay minimum for overtime for highly paid people in a computer related field whose job duties are sufficiently executive or administrative in nature. If they are very highly paid (~$150,000 per year) the exemption is easier to qualify for.
The referenced section of the FLSA exclusively reduces the wage protections of people exempted under its rules.
i didn’t look too close at the rule i was finding as it’s been a while, but there’s a minimum wage for computer workers at which their employers are exempted from being required to give them certain benefits. I don’t see the financial logic in paying them less than that wage, but i never employed a ton of computer workers. it’s an effective minimum wage without being a minimum wage. de jure versus de facto