DO most employers want to get this right? Based on the fact that wage theft is the largest form of theft even with everything else combined, I think that’s either a lie or a stupid thing to say.
Also, I just don’t understand under what circumstances anyone should be exempt from overtime. Is there some group of people who are less deserving of getting paid for their time that I am unaware of? Even (shudder) managers should probably get paid.
Since MOST companies are small and privately held I’d say yeah, most of them probably do. The issue is mostly with large publicly traded companies and because they have so many employees their cheating is what drives the statistics you quoted.
That doesn’t mean a small company won’t ever try to cheat because they will, I’m just saying that the smaller companies who are closer to their workers and don’t have “shareholders” are far less likely to shiv someone over their OT.
DO most employers want to get this right? Based on the fact that wage theft is the largest form of theft even with everything else combined, I think that’s either a lie or a stupid thing to say.
Also, I just don’t understand under what circumstances anyone should be exempt from overtime. Is there some group of people who are less deserving of getting paid for their time that I am unaware of? Even (shudder) managers should probably get paid.
They want to get it right so they absolutely never have to pay anyone overtime for any reason ever.
Since MOST companies are small and privately held I’d say yeah, most of them probably do. The issue is mostly with large publicly traded companies and because they have so many employees their cheating is what drives the statistics you quoted.
That doesn’t mean a small company won’t ever try to cheat because they will, I’m just saying that the smaller companies who are closer to their workers and don’t have “shareholders” are far less likely to shiv someone over their OT.