• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    It sounds barbaric, if you don’t stop to think about it for more than a second. Most jobs include some element of unpaid work. Teachers prepare lessons ahead of class. Nurses stay late to finish charting or prepare medications. Why, even journalists put in hours off the clock, transcribing interviews or travelling for a story.

    Oh fuck off. Is there a reason you can’t count it in the contract and put figures on it? Oh right, because then despite your bullshit figures it’d turn out the numbers don’t actually favour you.

    • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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      4 days ago

      Fuck right off, indeed. Unpaid work is barbaric, no matter the profession. No way nurses are working unpaid; they get overtime for that. I had several skilled teachers who through careful planning made certain they weren’t working off the clock. Etc.

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      Teachers prepare lesson plans ahead of class

      Teachers are unfortunately salary exempt in turn for being paid during the summer, so this doesn’t equate

      Nurses stay late to finish charting…

      They’re hourly and still on the clock getting paid

      Journalists put in hours of the clock

      Not familiar how their pay works

      Regardless in every example it’s a non-sequitor as they are not doing an exempt knowledge worker job that would even remotely qualify them for unpaid overtime. If you’re gonna take that route then they need to be put on salary and adjusted accordingly

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        Ontario teachers aren’t paid during the summer. I don’t know about other provinces as our public education systems are different in each province.

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          It’s a choice here. You’re on contract for a certain fixed rate. You can get it paid for the 9-10 months your working or divide it up over the full year.