I was working with a flooring company owner at one of my properties. I was on a tight schedule and at 5pm his crew went home. It was just him and me. I asked why he sent them home and he said, by law, he had to pay them overtime for any single day that they worked over eight hours. Even though they wouldn’t get 40 hours in the week and they were desperate for the money, the law said no. He explained that if he paid overtime then in a few hours he was working for free. He said that he might go weeks between jobs and then have three at the same time and the overtime reduced his profit sometimes to zero. The government doesn’t care what the impact is when they give away other people’s money.