More pay for BlackBerry users?

Canadian execs are demanding overtime – for reading messages on their BlackBerrys. The country’s civil service union, the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) told The Ottowa Citizen that companies who expect their workers to be permanently checking their mobiles should pay for the privilege.

Ed Cashman, PSAC’s regional executive vice-president told the paper: “These are gadgets and the expectation is, if you have one, you are available 24/7. Most jobs don’t need that degree of availability. If you want that degree of availability, you have to pay people for it.”

Or of course the workers could just switch the devices off…