Posted on 05/18/2015 10:22:25 AM PDT by impetrio1
In part three of our exclusive interview with Professor Walter E. Williams (Economics Department, George Mason University), we get his explanation why we may never see the “40-hour work week” again and also how ObamaCare is welfare, NOT health “insurance”.
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Interesting article history you have.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:impetrio1/index?tab=articles
Reads more like a marketing campaign.
Well considering we used to work 12-hours a day 6 days a week 100 years ago, I guess getting rid of the 40 hour work week was inevitable. I always thought it should be a four day work week anyway with Fridays off but a 9 hour day and everyone salaried. Too many are looking at the clock to get off work because of hourly pay. If everyone was salaried then people would not be so quick to run out the door due to overtime rules. I really wish I were President some days.
The owner of FreeRepublic reached out to us a few years ago after noticing people like you and your imaginary ownership of the site. He encouraged us to continue.
You can take it up with him.
“Reads more like a marketing campaign.”
We DO believe is capitalism, right?
I always thought it should be a four day work week anyway with Fridays off but a 9 hour day and everyone salaried. Too many are looking at the clock to get off work because of hourly pay. If everyone was salaried then people would not be so quick to run out the door due to overtime rules. I really wish I were President some days.
Reads more like a marketing campaign.
I’ve worked in salaried areas most of my career. It doesn’t change that behavior for most people.
Too bad. I just think it would be nice that if someone was finishing a project and needed to stay 15 minutes to finish it they would but on the other hand if they are running late and get in 15 minutes late another day it would not matter and they just get to work. I like the idea of this big time.
Awfully defensive about someone simply pointing out the obvious.
What’s a 40 hr work week? My husband hasn’t worked a 40 hr work week in years. Long before Obama. I was working more than 40 hours a week as well. Still struggling. The only “luxury” we have is cell phones, and I have to have one for work.
I’ve worked in salaried areas most of my career. It doesn’t change that behavior for most people.
Yikes, where I've worked, if you're on salary and you leave at 5:01 p.m. and the project's not done, don't bother coming in at 9 a.m. the next day, 'cuz you're fired.
I guess it depends on the job.
I’ve worked salaried plenty. To hell with it! Get paid to work 8:00 to 5:00 and work 7:00 to 6 or 7 or sometimes later everyday. You can keep it.
40 hour work week? What is that? I usually hit 40 hours around wednesday afternoon.
I work until its done. There is no time.
Awfully defensive about someone simply pointing out the obvious.
HG, I know you mean well, but I must say the content was good—great, actually, WW is the man—and therefore a private message might be the way to go. It's a bit tiresome for the rest of us to read complaints about good stuff when the offense, if any, is marginal at best.
Well, I’ve got a bizarre fixation about such things and just can’t help it.
The content is irrelevant to the posting history.
omb that is really deap
Why wouldn't just posting Mr. Williams' columns be the way to go?
What on earth do I care about Bob, Carol, Ted and Laura?
The dems have been trumpeting their bogus “war on women” charge at the GOP during the last few election cycles. With more justification conservatives could charge dems with waging a war on full time work.
The war started all the way back in the thirties under FDR, with the Fair Labor Standard Act’s mandate for time and one-half for overtime hours worked (currently after forty hours), making hours worked in excess of the standard more expensive for the employer.
In 1993, The Family and Medical Leave Act was passed, mandating twelve weeks of leave for employees. The leave wasn’t required to be paid, but the employer had to maintain health coverage during the leave, at a cost of $500 per month or more. However, an employee has to have worked 1250 hour in the twelve months immediately preceding the need for leave in order to be eligible, providing employers an incentive to keep many employees’ hours to twenty-five hours a week or so.
In 2010, of course, the dems dropped the immense load of sewage known as the Affordable Care Act on the American workforce. The ACA notoriously mandates health insurance coverage for employees - but only if they work at least thirty hours per week.
Later this summer, the labor department is expected to drop new overtime regulations on employers; the regulations are expected to make millions of currently exempt employees eligible for overtime.
When Americans wake up and discover that all of our full-time jobs have been exported to China, the dems and the MSM will, of course, blame the GOP.
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