This is the “freedom” liberals were willing to wipe out 20% of Korea’s population for.
You have 2 and a half hours left to sleep, eat, bathe, relax, before your next shift, I’m sure you can fit sex in there somewhere.
They’ll have to turn ‘child haver’ into a paid position within the republic of samsung at this rate.
I had a supervisor a few years ago who claimed to have stayed on the clock for three days straight once, slept in a closet. I think this was part of explaining why he’d been yelling at me over things so minor his boss had to take him aside. He said they were very “not like that!” abt it but he got them recorded. Moral of the story: none. He would love this.
In weather emergencies I’ve heard of nurses working over 24 hours on the clock, though I’m pretty sure legally in the US they can’t force us to work more than 16 hours straight. Apparently my company used to pay people for sleep time when they were forced to stay there, but that ended. Frankly the amount of people I know that have worked regularly 16 hours every day for as long as I’ve known them at work is somewhat scary. 12 hour shifts in the hospital are pushing it, but you’re also getting 4 days off a week as a tradeoff.
I would prefer the people giving me medical treatment be well rested. Where I am it’d my taxes paying for nurses and I’d really rather see them have decent lives and be in good shape to work while doing medicine than have an entirely pointless military. I’m Canadian, we can just use America’s anyway
though I’m pretty sure legally in the US they can’t force us to work more than 16 hours straight
Unless your state licensing specifically precludes “mandatory overtime” from the definition of “patient abandonment,” this is unfortunately not true. Check your state’s rules here.
(I’m not a nurse, but my mom was, and I remember hearing about "patient abandonment " cases during Hurricane Katrina and being absolutely horrified at the way the system works.)
My understanding was mainly that they can keep you there especially during a crisis but otherwise can’t, which is correct in my state, though there’s no upper limit like others. Still interesting that a few months back my previous employer violated that law by forcing me to stay an hour over because they didn’t have staffing when they didn’t exhaust all options like the law states.
Still not as bad as America where slavery is legal. Getting there, but not quite there.
Rookie numbers, in the US there’s no limit. My company can legally give me a 28 hour shift, and if I worked in a red state they wouldn’t be required to give me a single 30 minute break either
There’s so many loopholes in American labor laws
I knew a guy who used to work at Amazon as a salaried coder. But on-call for 2 weeks every 6 weeks for the payment system of an AWS service in all of India. Every week on-call he’d get 20-40 pages and he has to respond within 15 minutes. In addition to regular working hours
Told me he would never get a full night’s sleep during on-call and once never slept more than 2 hours straight 3 days in a row
