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Interesting unintended consequences with this - my sister-in-law had her job hours radically shifted to deal with this rule - and not in a good way that she appreciated.

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On election day Santa Clara county approved Measure E, which requires any business above a certain number of employees to offer additional work hours to existing part-time employees before hiring more part-time employees. The idea being to make it illegal for a company to just keep hiring more and more part-timers to avoid ever giving someone enough hours to become full-time.

I suspect if the overtime rule sticks around we'll see similar measures pop up for it.

Sweet more laws. Maybe when we finally get enough laws we'll become a just and kind society.

Right. Most businesses (non-restaurant) are going to easily be able to get around this rule and make things worse for employees. It will exacerbate the "contract employee" revolution in office settings.

Would you mind explaining the shift change in more detail? Did the employer hire more in order to lower everyone's hours below the overtime limit?

Not the parent, but I have known a couple of places that simply cut hours, without either hiring more people or increasing the hourly burden on exempt employees, and then complained they weren't meeting their targets.

(I've also known one or two places where they flat out told people to not report hours above a threshold and/or "mysteriously" deleted the overtime from the hours recorded, and the employees felt they couldn't report it to external authorities without getting fired.)

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