University of Oregon: 94.5% students authorize a strike for raise and two paychecks per month. University violated state law issuing paychecks more than 35 days apart.
https://nwlaborpress.org/2025/04/student-workers-ready-to-strike-at-university-of-oregon/
4 Comments
HubertManne@piefed.social · 13 pts · 1y
These time periods are rediculous in the computer age. Heck I can't believe every 2 weeks is still standard. It should be daily.
sprittytinkles@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
Overtime is calculated weekly in most states, so it has to be weekly.
taladar@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y
That seems like a strange demand. Either it is a bureaucratic problem or deliberate. If it is bureaucratic doubling the workload is clearly bad. if it is deliberate having more frequent paychecks will just give them an opportunity to downplay the issue since a large delay percentage is easier to justify on shorter overall durations (being one week late on a 2 week cycle is much easier to justify than being two weeks late on a monthly one).
vrek@programming.dev · 7 pts · 1y
From my experience with a fortune 500 company, it's about using that money in the time span between checks. So say you have 100,000 in weekly paychecks due, if you invest that in a week you will technically make more than if you didn't(probably, maybe not this week)