Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees

Re:Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees by dragonwriter on Thursday February 21, 2019 @06:39PM (#19221724)

> You don't understand.

Yes I do.

> Google claims ownership even on the stuff that you do on _your own_ time, like nights and weekend

On what basis, as a salaried employee paid for work output and not time-at-a-place, are evenings and weekends described as “your own time” any more than any other time?

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Re:Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees by int_19h on Thursday February 21, 2019 @10:42PM (#19222933)

On the basis of the employer designating those days as non-work days?

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Re:Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees by m0zg on Thursday February 21, 2019 @09:54PM (#19222736)

>> On what basis

On the basis that the contract says "40 hours a week". I don't owe the employer jack beyond that.

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Re:Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees by dragonwriter on Friday February 22, 2019 @03:19AM (#19223869)

> On the basis that the contract says "40 hours a week".

It's extremely rare for salaried worker contracts to say that.

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Re:Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees by ck425 on Friday February 22, 2019 @05:08AM (#19224244)

Most in the UK do, albeit normally with a caveat about exceptional situations.

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Re:Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees by C1sc0cat on Friday February 22, 2019 @08:04AM (#19224924)

Not for salaried they don't its no fixed hours of work - some employee handbooks will have core hours and a suggested average per week.

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Re:Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees by eeZah7Ux on Friday February 22, 2019 @06:28AM (#19224511)

It's the norm almost everywhere in the world.

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