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A right to disconnect: what would new rules mean for employees and bosses? (www.theguardian.com)
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[โ€“] abhibeckert 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The worst industry for this is school teachers.

At least in QLD, they are officially paid to work 5 hours a day which is ridiculous since kids are at the school for 6 hours a day and teachers don't get a one hour lunch break. Oh yeah, and a lot of their job can't possibly be done while students are in the room.

All teachers do unpaid overtime, which is OK since they are paid more than almost anyone else would get if they only worked 5 hours... but the issue is some teachers, because of the subjects or students they're assigned to, have to do significantly more overtime than they should be doing. And they don't get any pay for the overtime nor do they really have any choice other than trying to switch to a new school. Which often means uprooting your whole family and living somewhere else.

[โ€“] bananabenana 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah teaching sounds like such a terrible deal from my understanding.

Teachers have almost unrivalled bargaining power. They can stop society functioning if they go on strike - there is already a a teacher shortage, so no chance at scabs. The state teaching unions should be leveraging this to ensure they aren't getting cooked over working hours.