"I'll send you to the cornfield."
Posted on 04/22/2015 1:56:12 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
The National Retail Federation is warning that a possible change to overtime rules could negatively impact retailers.
“This summer, the Department of Labor is expected to propose changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act that would strip retail and restaurant managers of their salaried positions in favor of hourly pay and enact a limit on how managers are able to spend their time on the job,” the NRF noted in a press release.
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This will DESTROY jobs!
And the managers of retail stores and restaurants DO NOT WANT this!! No thanks, Obama; retail, restaurant managers say they don't want overtime
Salaried workers are usually exempt from NLRB Rules, being considered management.
This would open up a whole new class of workers to be overseen by the NLRB.......more power..................that’s the bottom line..........
What business does the Fed have dictating what “store managers” can do while on the job?
The time will come that every American will virtually be working for the Government.
Anyone other then the head manager of a retail chain should not be considered management, they have no authority and stake in the business anymore. The days of making it up on bonus are long gone. Salaried is just a convenient way to do paychecks with the PTO and attendance requirements at most places anymore.
Because they are not really managers, more like senior flunkies. Corporate tells them exactly how to do their job and no exceptions are allowed. Walmart sets the number of hours and what positions a store manager is allowed to schedule from the HQ in Arkansas.
Experts Say.
Experts?
Every time I hear what “Experts” say I want to do the opposite.
Does this stuff still sell?
I’d say Wesley Mouche is here, personally...
from reading the article, it appears that the NLRB's intent is to make mixed accounting of managerial and normal hours an impossible burden, so that retail managers will have to classified as hourly workers and then paid overtime.
If a manager is offered $30K per year for 2000 hrs per year but is forced to work overtime 10 hours per week, he is owed 520 hrs additional pay at time and a half or $11,700.00, and the Fed gov is owed about an additional $850 in FICA and Medicare taxes.
The end result will be fewer, but better paid managers.
The employees that will no longer be in salaried positions, would likely be forced to join the union.
At one time, perhaps it’s still the same, FLSA required you to pay your employee in 8 minute increments. In other words, if you’re off at 5p and you hang around until 5:08, those 8 minutes are compensatory.
This will run up costs and most certainly destroy jobs.
Reagan pegged them.
None of the Federal government’s business — or stae and local governemnt’s either.
That's the plan. That's exactly what they intend to do.
The states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate vote-winning intrastate wages. This is evidenced by the Supreme Court’s clarification that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate commerce.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
The Senate should have stopped Congress from stealing 10th Amendment-protected state powers to regulate intrastate wages by killing the bill that helped to establish the Department of Labor.
In fact, even if the states had constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate intrastate wages, the Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, evidently a good place to hide them from Congress and the Oval Office, to clarify that all federal legislative powers are vested in the elected members of Congress ; not the executive or judicial branches, or in non-elected federal bureaucrats.
So Congress has a monopoly on federal legislative powers whether it wants it or not. And by delegating such powers to non-elected bureaucrats, powers that corrupt Congress doesn’t have in the first place in this case, Congress is wrongly protecting such powers from the wrath of the voters in blatant defiance of the statutes referenced above.
What a mess! :^(
The problem is it concerns the 17th Amendment is this. Voters go home after voting for their favorite federal senators and watch football, oblivious to the major problem that their corrupt senators are working in cahoots with the corrupt House to pass unconstitutional bills. The Senate and House pass unconstitutional bills to win votes from low-information voter who don’t understand that Congress has no constitutional authority to make such laws imo.
The 17th amendment needs to disappear.
Also, ‘managers’ can be fired or laid off with little or no warning or compensation...............
We already are, January 1 through April 21!!!
“The National Retail Federation is warning that a possible change to overtime rules could negatively impact retailers.”
Like obama gives a damn. This will go through whether they like it or not.
Why can’t a person run HIS business the way he wants to run it?
The federal government certainly hasn’t a case to make for telling a guy how to run his own establishment.
Over the past five decades, the serfs have gotten use to their chains one-link-at-a-time...
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