Salaried employees need to stop letting Honeywell screw us around. We don't get paid OT because we are supposed to get paid for the work we do - not the hours we work. The law is quite clear - salaried employees cannot be required to record hours for the purpose of working a minimum number of hours. They can only be required to keep track of hours for the purposes of billing. So NO, we don't have to show we worked 40 hours every week. For example, if you are switching projects and do not have a charge number right away, we do not have to prove we worked at least 40 hours every week if not directly charging a program. That's why you will not find any policy under HR stating salaried employees have to show they worked 40 hours a week. I am sick of Honeywell wanting to have its cake and eat it too. They don't get to NOT pay OT AND require we work 40 hours every week. If they want every employee to work 40 hours every week even with no assigned work, then they are required to pay OT. Screw their greedy a**es.
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2cug: How many % foreigners are working at Honeywell? Don't tell me.. of course they are all lazy? Why is the leadership allowing us to be sooooo understaffed? We don't even have enough people to run all the sites functions/processes now. There are plenty of lazy "not my job types" around of all types. I watch Rush Limbaugh all the time, even though I don't agree with his thinking, I try and understand his point of view. Maybe you should watch SNL and do the same?
Whining brats
awwww what's the matter 2mch? Upset that trump is going to bring the jobs back to hard working Americans? Wah, wah, wah
Lazy? Hardly. Working 80 hours a week for no extra pay, then when you have a few days with no work while you switch projects, it is NOT being "lazy" to expect those days off.
I am sick of some of you foreign f*s constantly trying to say Americans are lazy. Other countries have much better labor laws, other countries take way more vacation than Americans, you can kiss our American aes. And if YOU don't like that, than YOU GTFO!!! I certainly have seen plenty of lazy foreigners working at HON. Coming in at 14 minutes past the hour, and leaving at 46 minutes past the hour, talking all day long. Lazy f* foreigners get no work done then try to blame it on Americans. If YOU don't like it, then crawl back to your f rock in whatever scumbag country you live in that depends on American charity to survive. Start your own dam companies. Oh that's right, you are TOO G* LAZY, so you have to go to work for American companies. Leeching off American sweat and innovation, then whining about it. Kiss my red, white, and blue American a and go back home whiners!!!!!!
Are you the people that will make USA great again? (Yes, USA, not America). A lot of lazy bones!
......and there is our angry drunk director who got his first stock option.
If you don't like it, GTFO.
Well they have forced people out without severance. Just looks WFH policy. I had to put my home up for sale and move with no relocation. I had no choice.
I wish I could afford a lawyer I'd lawyer up but I can't
The managers are pulled from the ranks, some directors are fresh out of school, none of honeywells policies require a manager to have any experience with managing people.
Honeywell has lost credibility on the street and lost its way in the industry
Honeywell is very much skirting the law here and they know it. They are very deliberate about what is written and what is unwritten policy and you won't find much if anything written about EEI. The day that they lay people off or force people out without severence and a written agreement is the day the lawsuits begin.
You're on your own going down this road. The argument that our schedule should be based on workload and not a steady 40 hour week doesn't logically yield a week less than 40 hours. More like 80-120 unless your site hardly has any work. And if that's the case you'll be on the chopping block.
To the moron telling us to put in 60-80 -hours per week, I have one reply: POUND SAND!!!! Duma$$ Cote already tried to replace me for $0.10 on the dollar in the sweat shops of the world and he got what he paid for. The third worlders couldn't find their back ends with a flashlight and a map. I have a Master's degree and 15 years experience. The third worlders don't have more education than me and they've only managed to fail miserably. I'm cleaning up their mess AND I know what I'm doing. I don't need to work 60-80 hours per week because I'm competent and can do it in 40.
Spot on. The company benefits from perpetuating this myth....I even think some managers truly don't understand (or maybe understand, but do not accept?) the distinction between salaried/paid for the job done vs. hourly/paid for hours worked. How else to explain a former manager allowing a salaried employee to log 2 hrs of vacation?!
I stopped working OT when I was forced to drive into the site everyday. I also leave my phone and computer at work pursuant to the new WFH policy. If they don't like it I guess they can RIF me. Oh wait. They're going to RIF everyone anyway, so I really have nothing to lose and only my time and sanity to gain. Thanks dave!
If a salaried employee is terminated for not working a minimum of 40 hours a week, they would have a nice lawsuit on their hands.
Gets terminated without severance. I wouldn't try it.
People: Stop talking and start some action against Honeywell. All talk and no action won't solve the problem. Look at congress, lol
Because as the OP stated there is no official policy stating that 40 hours a week is required. Everyone just does it. People who don't get paid OT need to stop going along with their game and then see what they do. If they try to tell you that you have to get your 40 hours a week in, that is what needs to be challenged. You didn't understand it if you are asking why no lawsuit has been filed.
Because you haven't filed one yet.
If it is so obvious, why there is no lawsuit going on?