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>>>>- No work without pay (and the Supreme Court actually got one right this year, in their internship ruling);
>>>>- No employing children;
>>>>- Overtime work requires extra pay;
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>>>>On #1, I agree, and as I've mentioned, different states have wage and payment collection laws that provide remedies + damages when employers violate
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>>>>Definitely agree on #2.
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>>>>#3 gets complicated - for hourly rate jobs, I definitely agree. On salary that gets complicated.
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>>>Why does #3 get complicated? Shouldn't matter if I'm being paid hourly or on salary. The contract is for X amount of money for a pre-determined amount of work (usually 40 hours). Now, if I can't do my job in 40 hours, that's on me. But if my employer keeps handing me more to do, then it's on them and I would expect something in return. Heck, even the State of Texas gives comp time as it's against state law to work for 'free'.
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>>Isn't that one of the problems of the salaried employee. Presenteeism takes over so people end up working longer and longer weeks.
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>>I remember when I started working years ago we filled out timesheets and worked a specific number of hours a week. Then the senior management decided we where professional salaried staff and shouldn't need to fill out timesheets and surprise working hours slowly increased.
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>Pretty much everywhere I've been that I was salaried we still had to fill out timesheets

Was that because you were working for different clients or on different projects ?