[chimeracoder]

> That's funny. Most people who are working in a place where they would be pressured to continue doing work after hours are not paid hourly

Whether or not they are paid hourly, as long as they are not classified as exempt, they are entitled to overtime pay. (Tech workers are classified as exempt in California, which is indeed a problem and IMHO a mistake, but that's a much smaller issue)

> And then there is those long term contractors that are hourly but basically on a fixed number of hours per week...

Well, that's a bad way to write a contract, but even so, that's a totally different situation because they're not even an employee. And the French law referenced in the original article wouldn't apply in that situation either.