• CoriolisSTORM88@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s amazing that I work for a large European company in America and am forced to accept calls or come into the plant 24/7.

    It’s almost like it has to come from a government to make corporations behave.

    I have colleagues that have their out of offices set to “I’ll be available by cell or email” or somesuch. Mine doesn’t say anything, and I don’t check it unless I want to. My vacation time is MY time.

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      Either the government does it or you join a union. I am a member of a large construction trade union and it’s written into our contract that we cannot be denied time off and can’t be forced to be available during off hours or made to work overtime.

      The catch is that if you want to advance in the company it really helps if you can make a little extra effort. You absolutely will never be penalized for sticking to the minimum requirements, but you also will never move up into management, which is perfectly fine with a lot of people.

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        I work in tech, in a datacenter, and godamn this whole industry needs to be unionized. Between all the servers/etc serviced from the hot aisle (which is constantly more than 100F), no structured cabling anywhere, and a lack of sane standards that actually serve a purpose… Yeah I should get a different job

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      Not defending them, but I assume it’s the American bosses implementing what they think is normal.

      If a company wants to keep policy in other countries it has to make it very clear to each branch, otherwise they will forget or not care about the policy.

    • alvanrahimli@lemmy.ml
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      Yes. It totally has to come from the government. No way companies alone will do any good for their employees and respect their time.

      Take the 6 or 8 can holder plastic thingy (that turtles and fishes always get tangled up). In the EU, it is forbidden to use them. So, companies like Coca cola don’t implement them. But in the US, there are no laws stating that, so they continue selling with that shit.

      Without the government backing them, employees are just numbers in sheets for companies. Nothing more.