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If workers are older than 18 years of age, there is no law requiring
companies to limit the number of hours worked, except in certain professions
such as airline pilots and truck drivers, said Satish Deshpande, a
management professor at Western Michigan University.
"There is a general trend toward more forced overtime simply because the
only other option is to hire more people," Deshpande said.
Time-and-a-half payment for overtime came into place in U.S. corporations in
the 1930s to encourage companies to hire more workers rather than have
employees work overtime.
These days, though, hiring a full-time worker and providing benefits is more
expensive than paying workers time-and-a-half, Deshpande said. And if a
company invests the time and money to train workers, the investment is lost
if there isn't enough work for them to do.
"The safest way is to have people work overtime ... and make sure you have
the business in place before hiring people," Deshpande said.
Hiring more people is not what Kellogg wants to do, believes one employee,
54-year-old Bruce Warren of East Leroy.
"The company's grasping at straws any way they can not to hire people," said
Warren, a line operator.
Being required to work some weekend shifts is enough, Warren said. The
prospect of forced daily overtime, on top of weekend work, doesn't sit well
with him.
Cybercollegially,
Charles Wankel, St. John's University, New York
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