Sandwichman wrote: > Where I work, the collective agreement > permits us to restrict our hours. We qualify for benefits at 24 hours > a week. Most people work a four-day week. We just negotiated a new > contract with a raise and extending the right to restrict hours. I was > on the bargaining committee.
Sounds good. It would be great if all people belonged to kind of collective (or had that kind of a collective-bargaining agreement with management?) Under this kind of pact, the implementation of calls to restrict work hours would not be compensated for by employers' cutting of wages, benefits, etc. How can we get that? Jeffrey Fisher writes: >of course, leisure time is fuzzy in academia, at least when you take either or both of your teaching and writing seriously.< if you're on salary, whether in academia or not, the idea of your "hours of work" has no direct connection with your pay. In theory, at least, you are held responsible for achieving some specific goals, not for working any specific number of hours. Administrators don't care how many hours salaried employees work per week (or per month or per year) as much as whether those goals are achieved or not. -- Jim Devine / "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
