{"id":2744,"date":"2003-01-24T18:38:14","date_gmt":"2003-01-25T01:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/01\/hp-sued-again-for-screwing-contractors\/"},"modified":"2003-01-24T18:38:14","modified_gmt":"2003-01-25T01:38:14","slug":"hp-sued-again-for-screwing-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/24\/hp-sued-again-for-screwing-contractors\/","title":{"rendered":"HP sued again for screwing contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tFrom the Frisco Chronicle we read <a title=\"Temporary workers sue HP over overtime pay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2003\/01\/22\/BU217297.DTL\">Temporary workers sue HP over overtime pay<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Hewlett-Packard has been accused of exploiting temporary workers by forcing them to work overtime without pay or benefits, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some contractor persons of my acquaintance working for HP&#8217;s Video Server group in Santa Clara in 1995 were asked by their manager to work 80-100 hours a week to meet an aggressive deadline but only to bill 40 since the manager&#8217;s budget was maxed-out; she assured them that they would be paid later on by submitting invoices for hours they didn&#8217;t work. One poor sap fell for this plan, and when he invoiced them while on vacation in Israel, the company rejected the invoice and terminated his contract for misrepresentation of hours worked.<\/p>\n<p>He sued, but I don&#8217;t know what happened with the suit because this was all obviously a verbal deal. HP seems to get itself into these messes with amazing regularity, which makes you think that the HP Way is One Way, right to the crapper.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, back at the marketplace, HP is remains <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs.marketwatch.com\/news\/story.asp?guid=%7B68942993-541B-467E-A59E-4070B41EFD80%7D&#038;siteid=mktw\">number one in network servers:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Results from a new study by research firm Gartner show that in 2002 H-P held onto its position as the No.1 computer server maker worldwide and in the U.S. Gartner estimates that H-P (HPQ: news, chart, profile) shipped nearly 1.4 million servers worldwide for a 30 percent share.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Message?\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Frisco Chronicle we read Temporary workers sue HP over overtime pay Hewlett-Packard has been accused of exploiting temporary workers by forcing them to work overtime without pay or benefits, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday. Some contractor persons of my acquaintance working for HP&#8217;s Video Server group in Santa Clara in 1995 were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/24\/hp-sued-again-for-screwing-contractors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HP sued again for screwing contractors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Ig","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}