Unpaid Overtime Quotes

Eight hours daily labor is enough for any human being

I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the streets.

I'm a grafter, I like working, but like for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the film company only paid me for the shooting schedule, which was supposed to last six months. But it lasted 11 months and you don't get paid for extra shooting.

The overtime rule was frankly diluted in 2004 by a regulation put in place by the Bush administration.

Misclassification is a serious problem in construction as well as other industries, and it is exacerbated by increasingly fissured employment structures where work is contracted and subcontracted away from the core company.

Those Oriental people work like dogs.

A journal produced by office-boys for office-boys.

We've waged war on work. We have collectively agreed, stupidly, that work is the enemy.

The secret's out: New York's Labor Law provides the power to help low-wage workers earn enough to meet their basic needs.

The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.

Misclassification means workers are denied not just minimum wage and overtime but other social safety net protections like workers' compensation and unemployment insurance.

Wage violations are tantamount to theft.

When you work extra, you should be paid extra. That's what the Fair Labor Standards Act said. And I've met so many people who are working 60-70 hours a week, and they are effectively working 20 hours for free because they are making a little bit above the minimum wage, because the 2004 regulation enables employers to do that. That's not fair.

Obviously, I wasn't expecting Wall Street to be a laid-back place. I was prepared for hard work. Sadly, much of the work the new guys were asked to do and the insane hours we were expected to keep had little to do with making the bank more productive. It felt more like hazing.

The people who come to work deserve to be paid properly, and there's no excuse. I could understand someone making a small error, but sometimes people make systematic errors, and that's not right.

I think when you're off the clock, you should be off the clock.

Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.

I vividly remember early on in my career when I was eight months pregnant, working literally around the clock, and worrying that each trip to the restroom or my need to catch the occasional catnap was causing my colleagues to question whether I could keep up.

Most times we would make more money in the tip boxes - they called it - than we were getting paid.

I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.

You should pay the laborer his wages before his sweat dries

We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time.

The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.

It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so you stay another hour or two, surfing the Web and reading your e-mails again, so you don't come off as a slacker. It's an unfortunate reality that efficiency often goes unrewarded in the workplace.

You see, we capitalists will never actually ask you to work overtime. I don't even track your hours. I just make it clear that I trust you to get your job done in the time allotted. And then I hand you twice as much work as you can reasonably do in a 40-hour week.