Proposed Legislation: Fair Compensation for Additional Workload Act
Purpose: To ensure fair compensation for employees required to perform additional duties beyond their regular workload due to the absence of colleagues.
Summary: This bill mandates that employees who are required to cover the responsibilities of absent colleagues receive proportional additional compensation for the extra time, effort, and energy expended. The compensation multiplier should reflect the number of additional roles covered, ensuring that each employee is fairly rewarded for their increased workload.
Example Provision: If a nurse or any employee covers the workload of three absent colleagues during their shift, their pay for that day must be multiplied to reflect the roles they have taken on, ensuring fair compensation for their contribution and preventing burnout.
Rationale: This legislation aims to promote workplace fairness, prevent employee exploitation, and maintain workforce morale by recognizing and compensating the extra work that employees undertake due to unexpected staffing shortages. Americans should not be forced to pick up the slack of other workers without receiving fair pay for doing so. Non essential corporations or entities that fail to meet staffing needs to match their workloads should also be fined, to dissuade them from overworking and exploiting employees