Posted on 05/18/2016 2:48:09 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
So I wake up today hearing this HORSE CRAP rule regarding overtime....a move that is SO BEYOND the scope of a federal government it makes me want to scream.
I have been largely absent from news today--is there ANY response on this at all?!
I know Valerie told her little man to make this effective AFTER the election....but certainly this overreach can be fought in other ways.
Any hope at all out there?
I just don’t understand the cap.
Trump needs a list of detrimental Executive Orders that Obama has used to bypass Congress, and spring them on Hillary at the first Presidential Debates.
"...Someone tell me that there is SOME kind of pushback against this tinpotwannabedictator..."
Mitch "0bama's Bitch" can't be pried away from Happy Hour and Paul Ryno has his head embedded too far up Hussein's butt to respond.
This rule could have interesting consequences. Those overtime regulations for middle-income employees could mean they get less overtime hours. That might mean more hours for people who are working part time and for lower income employees. It might be a good thing.
If your waiting on a response from Cornyn, bring a chair. He is still fund raising on K Street.
You know he is busy...
****crickets****
My guess would be a yawn.
The idea behind raising the threshold for overtime is to prevent salaried workers from earning less than total minimum wage.
Fast food places (I worked in one once) are notorious for abusing people by calling them ‘managers’ when they don’t actually manage anything or anyone. It’s just a way to evade overtime rules.
For instance: If you’re a ‘manager’ making $16 an hour when the minimum is $15 then if you work a typical 60 hour week on salary then you’ll end up making $10.66 an hour for that week.
That’s the big thing this rule is supposed to address.
I completely oppose the minimum wage but if you’re going to do it then this adjustment to the rule on the threshold makes sense.
George Bush set the last threshold after a minimum wage hike so this is just an administrative thing, not a political football.
You mean the list he filed under EXs to be Axed...
No. Remember, the RinoCons (Rino Conservatives) are still in charge. Notice how all the Rinos have suddenly become conservatives?
All federal workplace regulations among the several States are beyond the powers granted the federal government.
This is how rulemaking under various federal regulatory statutes has worked for many, many decades now. Some rules "over-reach" and get struck down. Some get upheld as being a lawful exercise of delegated authority.
Of course, if Congress should decide that it does not like the rule, regardless of whether it is consonant with the Department of Labor's authority under the FLSA, Congress could itself amend the FLSA accordingly. Don't hold you breath on that. Most politicians would prefer to pontificate and bloviate, enrage their (gullible) constituents, collect campaign contributions accordingly ... and then do nothing.
The manager making $10 per hour understands that he has an opportunity to climb the ladder. That is why he doesn’t mind. Same with interns before they become doctors. Trying to make the entire country one big union organization will destroy us.
The problem is when that ‘manager’ is really just another fry cook with a title.
This rule could have interesting consequences. Those overtime regulations for middle-income employees could mean they get less overtime hours. That might mean more hours for people who are working part time and for lower income employees. It might be a good thing.
Nope. It means two low wage jobs with no benefits instead of one good job with benefits. And if the company can’t find two competent part time employees the jobs and business will go bye bye.
No, because Ryan is 0bama’s enabler.
It also means some of us are having to clock in and out for the first time in 20 years.
One radio news program interviewed a local business about the overtime increases. The business owner said they would have to consider cutting hours.
[Who didn’t see that coming? Libs.]
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