Re: Pressure For Free Overtime

[Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>]

   Gene Kim-Eng wrote:

     Unless the company is prepared to let you take time off for
     personal reasons and still charge them for the time, there is
     no reason why you should be working additional hours for them
     off the books.

   Someone probably already said this, but it is also illegal to work for
   a company "off the books" as WalMart and others found out. Even if you
   work at an At WIll state, and I think most of them are, they have to
   pay you for time worked and overtime for hours worked beyond eight
   hours a day (unless your are working 4-10s), or 40 hours a week.  I'm
   not a labor attorney, nor do I play one on TV or weekends at the local
   pub, but I think if you check the local labor laws, or consult a labor
   lawyer, you may have some ammunition to change things.
   Al

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