How flexible are your hours?
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@matteo-nunziati said in How flexible are your hours?:
@Dashrender said in How flexible are your hours?:
@matteo-nunziati said in How flexible are your hours?:
@Dashrender sometimes in smaller companies. this is the fact: italian labor law requires companies to give 2 hours OR either give compensation in salary (for you to be eating out of your house) or provide a canteen service (is canteen the right term?).
Interesting - If they can't give you 2 hours off at lunch, they have to give you money so you can buy food away from your home. Now that's a first. I've never heard of that before.
yes. currently this is aound 5€ per working day. in fact stuff like ticket restaurant and so provide similar value.
small companies simply say: take 2 hours and do whatever you want. This is my first time with 2 hours. asways been in the 45'-1h range.
So you were either paid, what we call a stipend ( a predetermined amount to cover some expense) or they provided lunch (would canteen imply that you had to have a choice in what you are eating, like a buffet? or at least more than one option?)
if companies build their own canteen (just bigger companies) or make agreements with local ones (this is more common but still seldom in small businesses), yes this is something like this:
When companies do not provide 2 hours, the most simple thing is to provide ticket-restaurant-like stuff. Then you go in the closer place where you can use it!
Wow is all I can say - and that's a federal law?
FYI, We'd call those cafeterias in the US.
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@Dashrender said in How flexible are your hours?:
@matteo-nunziati said in How flexible are your hours?:
@Dashrender said in How flexible are your hours?:
@matteo-nunziati said in How flexible are your hours?:
@Dashrender sometimes in smaller companies. this is the fact: italian labor law requires companies to give 2 hours OR either give compensation in salary (for you to be eating out of your house) or provide a canteen service (is canteen the right term?).
Interesting - If they can't give you 2 hours off at lunch, they have to give you money so you can buy food away from your home. Now that's a first. I've never heard of that before.
yes. currently this is aound 5€ per working day. in fact stuff like ticket restaurant and so provide similar value.
small companies simply say: take 2 hours and do whatever you want. This is my first time with 2 hours. asways been in the 45'-1h range.
So you were either paid, what we call a stipend ( a predetermined amount to cover some expense) or they provided lunch (would canteen imply that you had to have a choice in what you are eating, like a buffet? or at least more than one option?)
if companies build their own canteen (just bigger companies) or make agreements with local ones (this is more common but still seldom in small businesses), yes this is something like this:
When companies do not provide 2 hours, the most simple thing is to provide ticket-restaurant-like stuff. Then you go in the closer place where you can use it!
Wow is all I can say - and that's a federal law?
FYI, We'd call those cafeterias in the US.
Or a canteena, a smaller canteen.
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Canteen is the correct English word, though, and is more accurate than cafeteria. A Cafeteria is supposed to serve coffee, which most will anyway. But a canteen means that it is a cafeteria style but provided by the company rather than being independent.
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@scottalanmiller said in How flexible are your hours?:
Canteen is the correct English word, though, and is more accurate than cafeteria. A Cafeteria is supposed to serve coffee, which most will anyway. But a canteen means that it is a cafeteria style but provided by the company rather than being independent.
Interesting - I've not heard the term used like this before.
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They treat us like adults - it's slightly more strict for IT because we support the place but honestly I've shown up an hour late and no one cares as long as I do my time and everyone gets helped.
Put in extra time ---> flex hours (can't "bank" them, take them within a few weeks of accrual)
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@Dashrender said in How flexible are your hours?:
@scottalanmiller said in How flexible are your hours?:
Canteen is the correct English word, though, and is more accurate than cafeteria. A Cafeteria is supposed to serve coffee, which most will anyway. But a canteen means that it is a cafeteria style but provided by the company rather than being independent.
Interesting - I've not heard the term used like this before.
ThanksThink about things like WW2 movies or Korean War, I bet you heard it and didn't realize it. The US military uses the term for their field eateries.
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I feel like they say it on MAS*H
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@scottalanmiller said in How flexible are your hours?:
I feel like they say it on MAS*H
Just asked the wife - she's been watching it on Netflix, they call it the mess tent.
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My hours are not flexible at all, work from 7 AM to 6:30 PM M, W, Th and 9 AM to 5 PM T F. Saturdays on call.
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@dbeato said in How flexible are your hours?:
My hours are not flexible at all, work from 7 AM to 6:30 PM M, W, Th and 9 AM to 5 PM T F. Saturdays on call.
I used to be on call 24/7 and I would need to be making significantly more to ever justify it to myself
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@dbeato said in How flexible are your hours?:
My hours are not flexible at all, work from 7 AM to 6:30 PM M, W, Th and 9 AM to 5 PM T F. Saturdays on call.
I hope your paid well?......
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@Dashrender said in How flexible are your hours?:
Wow is all I can say - and that's a federal law?
well... state law, we are no federation. this is something put into the labor law by labor unions, when they talk/fight/do politics with government every time labor law has to be renewed.
