Why? I mean, fining the people that worked the overtime is pretty dumb, but fining a business for overtime makes sense to me: it would encourage businesses to right-size their staffs rather than push for overtime from overworked workers.
Edit: if you need overtime to make enough money, you need to join a union and agitate for a strike. More time at work isn’t the answer the world needs.
So the fines are leveled at professionals who receive less legal protections than other industries. Doctors are also hopefully making enough money not to need overtime
But also, there is a question about the state response to a disaster. This seems to be punishing those to responded to a disaster in a way reflective of the disaster. If the government didn’t want them to work overtime, resources should have been provided so they didn’t need to work overtime.
I disagree but only for jobs like doctors and pilots where overwork is a safety issue. I don’t care if an exhausted stock trader loses money but doctors do need mandatory breaks, limits on shift length, time between shifts, etc.
having a law to fine overtime in the first place was beyond fucking stupid
Why? I mean, fining the people that worked the overtime is pretty dumb, but fining a business for overtime makes sense to me: it would encourage businesses to right-size their staffs rather than push for overtime from overworked workers.
Edit: if you need overtime to make enough money, you need to join a union and agitate for a strike. More time at work isn’t the answer the world needs.
So the fines are leveled at professionals who receive less legal protections than other industries. Doctors are also hopefully making enough money not to need overtime
But also, there is a question about the state response to a disaster. This seems to be punishing those to responded to a disaster in a way reflective of the disaster. If the government didn’t want them to work overtime, resources should have been provided so they didn’t need to work overtime.
This particular situation is getting ironed out.
I’m just saying that fining businesses for overtime doesn’t seem like the most hairbrained idea to me, it’s not “beyond fucking stupid.”
I disagree but only for jobs like doctors and pilots where overwork is a safety issue. I don’t care if an exhausted stock trader loses money but doctors do need mandatory breaks, limits on shift length, time between shifts, etc.
If the alternative is death, I’d take a tired doctor over no doctor.