Forced Off-the-Clock Workers Fight Back
"To keep costs down ... the manager often ordered her and the two other stylists to engage in a practice, long hidden, that appears to have spread to many companies: working off the clock ...
What angered her most was her paltry paycheck, which she said often came to just $200 for two weeks, even after 80 hours at work ...
Off-the-clock work can take many forms. Employees are sometimes told that it is the way people advance in a company, and other times they are forced to show up early or stay late under threat of losing their jobs ... "
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posted by Jimbo Trout @ Sunday, November 21, 2004
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