[unionmember99]

Member of a union here -- two, in fact! -- in unrelated industries. "1.5x for overtime, 2x for 7th day" is pretty standard. If they were hourly employees and not getting a deal similar to this before, they were getting ripped off.

[deburo]

You know, 1.5x for overtime seems great until it is enforced for everybody (like it's done in Quebec) and so it is forbidden by company leadership unless it is deemed a necessity. So for people with more time on their hands than responsabilities, they usually can't (voluntarily) work more in their main job to boost their pay, and so they get side jobs, which are usually not declared.

Mandated 1.5x overtime has consequences.

Another side effect (that I know happens in manufacturing jobs) is that people will deliberately slow their work during the week to work overtime on the weekend. I'd wager this is very common in jobs with frequent overtime opportunities.

[gopher_space]

> So for people with more time on their hands than responsabilities

What kind of widget are we building where underemployed meth-heads get to show up for as long as they want and set their own pay schedules? Nothing in life works like this.

Look at it this way: Why would you hire someone who doesn't think they're worth market rate?