Instead, impose a regulation on business to demonstrate by a clearly defined set of criteria that they dispose of their waste properly (e.g. by submitting copies of invoices / service contracts that are in line with the level of typical trash generation for the type of business). Ditto for residents. Let any and all private trash hauler contractors into the market. Let and and all residents / businesses choose their own service providers (or to self haul to the transfer station). Administer compliance with a trivially low excise tax per ton of trash collected.

” Provided catnaps do not exceed normal break times, management should be willing to ignore Internet shark.”

Internet sharks have nothing to do with this issue.

The problem with your point of view, is that management can’t ignore city councilman A who is irate because citizen / taxpayer B was in his office ranting about seeing city workers (whose salaries his taxes pay) sleeping on the job.

The same goes for having video footage of city workers sleeping on the job on the local TV news. This also leads to local citizens/taxpayers complaining to their city councilmen and the City councilmen coming down on non-elected managers in charge of the employees in question.

As part of the deal, Taylor and other lawyers for the drivers will receive nearly $8.7 million in legal fees.

This seems excessive for a case with seemingly undisputed facts that settles out of court. Even if they billed at $1087.50 per hour, they’d need to have had a team of 8 lawyers who all worked on it exclusively for 50 hours per week for 20 weeks to be able to justify that. And I can pretty much guarantee that they did not have 8 lawyers working on this for 50 hours a week for 20 weeks, and I’m thinking that if they billed at $1087.50 per hour they wouldn’t have very many clients unless they were literally the best lawyers in the country.

The workers each end up with $15,000 (which itself seems like a lot for lunch restrictions.) The lawyers win the lottery.