Posted on Apr 4, 2024
California bill would let employees ignore boss's after-hours calls, messages
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"We are in constant competition with other states like Texas and New York who are trying to woo California workers to their states," They think another law will stop their bleeding population to other states. I believe they are wrong.
California bill would let employees ignore boss's after-hours calls, messages
Posted from foxbusiness.com
State of California
Employment
Law
Posted 1 mo ago
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When will CA just go ahead and secede and go full communist as its own nation.
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This new law just reinforces the reasons for businesses to leave the state
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That's laughable because workers have always chosen to ignore such calls after their normal workday. "Sorry, I wasn't home," or "My cellphone was off," (or left in my car or home, or the battery was dead).
The company I worked for started giving key employees pagers, then when that failed, cellphones. Only the exempt employees could be held accountable as being, "on call."
Rank & file employees simply can't legally be forced to answer a call, text or email; unless it's a contractual agreement.
California continues however to chase employees away by idiotic social policies and cost of living. They do the same with employers (and workers) with high taxes and employer mandated wage requirements. Yet they wonder, "Why is everyone leaving," or wishing that they could leave.
The company I worked for started giving key employees pagers, then when that failed, cellphones. Only the exempt employees could be held accountable as being, "on call."
Rank & file employees simply can't legally be forced to answer a call, text or email; unless it's a contractual agreement.
California continues however to chase employees away by idiotic social policies and cost of living. They do the same with employers (and workers) with high taxes and employer mandated wage requirements. Yet they wonder, "Why is everyone leaving," or wishing that they could leave.
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I never thought about it until I was in charge of investigations for a previous organization I worked for. My investigators received a reduced hourly compensation to be on call with a 3 hour guarantee if I had to call them out. It is a sweet deal for them. I would never dream of calling other rank and file employees, probably the only exception would be if I were offering them overtime.
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SSG Bill McCoy
SFC (Join to see) I was the same. My group got 4 hrs of OT, even if their call-out lasted anything less. We tried to avoid calling anyone not on standby except for those rare, "All hands on deck," calls.
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