DNC didn't pay overtime, lawsuit says

Washington Examiner ^ | May 15, 2017 | Sean Higgins

[T Ruth]

A class-action lawsuit charges that the Democratic National Committee, the Pennsylvania Democratic Party and others involved in the party's 2016 national convention failed to pay overtime wages to an estimated 50 national field organizers.

The DNC adopted an official plank at the convention calling for a $15 an hour national minimum wage, more than double the current federal level of $7.25 an hour. "The Democratic Party believes that supporting workers through higher wages, workplace protections, policies to balance work and family, and other investments," it said.

That apparently didn't extend to the organizers, many of whom worked 80-hour weeks, according to Justin Swidler, a Cherry Hill, Pa., lawyer who filed the lawsuit. "They got paid a flat salary of $3,000 a month, which isn't even minimum wage for some of the hours that they were working," Swidler told CBS.

[Sasparilla]

This will never be on the evening news.

[Mark17]

The rats always say, do as I say, not as I do.

[timestax]

bttt

[Army Air Corps]

“You’re working ‘for the cause’, so you’re happy to ‘volunteer’ some time, right?”

[17th Miss Regt]

"Man, that Podesta had me go out and shoot some poor sap in Washington late one night. That is way outside my normal work hours! Where is the equity? Where is the justice?"

[Chode]

and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!

[ptsal]

Volunteering for jury duty...

[texas booster]

Under new DOL rules, salarymen making under $48,000 must be compensated with time a half overtime.

While the rule was suspended this Spring, many companies went ahead and adopted the ruling.

Can't the DNC even follow their own rules?

[txhurl]

Al Capone unexpected takedown.