My work rules for working hours need to apply to all the globe's working people. From what I've seen in the last 3 decades of my 49 years, unless you have enough interest income and or dividend income to live on, you're a worker. Managers are workers, if they are useful managers. Most senior managers are most focused with rigging the system to take a undeserved huge cut of the pie before anyone else gets a fair share of the pie, and, it takes EVERYONE’S work to make the pie.
I think competition is fine. Fair competition can bring out the best in us. If someone invents a google or a warp drive or penicillin, I’ve got no problem that person earning enough to cash out and sit on a beach forever sipping gin and tonics. However, competition without fair rules is NOT fair competition. When the competition is structured so we all break our butts for the benefit of those at the top, and the best doormat, boot licker, butt wipe, sycophant and back stabbers are the best, we end up with the crap we have today. When the people with money make the workers' rules about competition, the competition benefits those with the money. The winners of the daily foot races of productivity get false promises and the senior management pockets the surplus. For every inventor of a google or penicillin who gets their deserved rewards, there are how many of those from money - the trumps, gates, hiltons, bushes ... who are ushered into all the right doors with all the right opportunities, and who rarely invent the wheel or reinvent the mouse trap, but who do spend their efforts staying in charge?
All the globe's citizens need good rules about working hours so that we have the energy to do more in our community than work ourselves into the grave. Having more energy after work means we can be better family members and better parents and better community members.
The rules have to apply to EVERYONE, to prevent the race to the bottom companies and scumbag bosses (like some of the slime I worked for at Microsoft!) from wrecking people’s health.
There are 6 billion ++ people in the world who need clothing, food, clean water, sewage, transportation, housing, education for their young, care for their elderly, healthcare, retraining when their jobs go obsolete, vacation ... everyone should see the Great Wall of China and the Grand Canyon in their lives. There is more work to do than time to do it in. There are not enough resources for everyone to have their own 400 foot yachts, 10 servants and 20 room mansions (um... do the math). However, we should be smart enough to get everyone what they need.
Earth is a factory, let’s make it work it efficiently so we all have free time and we all have opportunity. We need a hard working, honest public sector, and we need a non exploitive, vibrant private sector. We need fair work rules that apply to everyone everywhere.
MY FIRST DRAFT OF GLOBAL WORK RULES FOR FULL TIME WORK:
- overtime is 1.5 times your hourly rate.
- 2 breaks at 15 mins. each, paid
- lunch at least 30 mins
- overtime starts after 8 hours of work.
- If you show up when you are supposed to, you are owed at least 4 hours of pay.
- your work days must be contiguous.
- your days off must be contiguous.
- overtime starts after 40 hours in a week.
- your contiguous days of work can't change without a 1 month notice,
- the scheduled time of your start can't vary by more than 2 hours in any 6 week interval,
- if the scheduled time of your start will change by more than 2 hours, you get 1 month notice.
- overtime hours can be paid as comp time at 1.5 times your hourly rate by mutual agreement ONLY,
- 10 paid holidays a year.
- 10 personal / sick days a year, no use it or lose it, bankable to 50 days.
- 15 days vacation a year, no changes to agreed vacation time off 3 months before the time off.
- salary workers work max 40 hours a week.
- any owner or combination of owners can't have more than 20% of their workers be part time,
- ALL workers defined as management get a proportional share of ALL Exec office stock options, bonuses, company housing, company transportation, Any and ALL non paycheck perks ...
- employer pays to retraining fund for layoffs, the fund is NOT controlled by employers or any owners of the enterprise.
- employees earns 2 months retraining at last hourly rate per year of service. benefits available after 5 years continuous employment
- managers who use firing to avoid layoffs get 10 years in prison, NO parole.
- managers who abuse the rules above get 10 years in prison, NO parole,
- abusive managers will be tried and prosecuted from funds collected from employers and paid into a fund dedicated to pay for abusive manager prosecution.
+++++++ End List For Now.
Some of the biggest holes in my brave new world – what do to about part time work and compensation! For example, scum bag companies make benefits available at full time work, then almost no one can get full time hours. Smart scum bag companies will define all their workers as part time and screw all of them over! I hate to say some specific %, but, I don't know what to do.
I don't know what to do about unions, in that the union I work for is staggeringly ineffective. I already have a 50++ hour a week job doing my job, changing my ineffective union is something I currently don't have time for.
My list isn't complete. However, I already have a full time job, so instead of criticizing my incompleteness, jump in with SUGGESTIONS that are detailed and workable.