Posted on 05/17/2016 2:36:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Millions more Americans will qualify for overtime pay under a final Labor Department regulation expected out Wednesday, in what could be President Barack Obama’s last big push to try to shore up workers’ wages.
The rule will increase the annual salary threshold that generally determines who qualifies for overtime pay when they log more than 40 hours a week. It will have a sweeping effect on workers, employers and industries, including large and small retailers, the fast-food industry, universities and nonprofits.
Analysts and industry groups expect the threshold will be doubled to about $47,000 from $23,660—a level last updated in 2004. That means workers who are paid by the hour or earn annual salaries of less than $47,000 would be eligible for overtime pay, while those with salaries of that much or more generally wouldn't.
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The agency received 270,000 public comments about its proposal, many from employers and industry trade groups who warned the rule would force employers to cut workers’ hours, slow hiring of full-time employees and shift salaried professionals to hourly employees who have to punch a time clock.
“Just because there’s an overtime rule does not mean there’s going to be overtime pay,” said David French, senior vice president of government relations for the National Retail Federation trade group. “By stroke of a pen, DOL is going to be demoting millions of employees in the economy from salary to hourly,” he said.
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One way to take up the slack caused when employers have to cut staff or make more employees part time in response to things like Obamacare is to create new job positions which converts other hourly employees into salaried. Give them a fancy new job title, and have them do their old job plus several others while paying them what amounts to sub minimum wage. The solution is not new overtime rules, but scrapping the rules that made the new ones necessary in the first place.
I’m wondering what workers? Must be all the people Barky has in his government, it surely isn’t any American workers!!!
A lot of the things he does end up having no affect at all. It’s like when the Seattle City Council decided to raise minimum pay for city workers to $15.00 an hour. That sounds great to those who don’t realize that there is probably no one on the city payroll who earns less than that already.
Non-exempt workers already qualify for overtime. Exempt workers don’t get overtime, so I’m not sure exactly what he is doing here.
Regardless what FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices wanted everybody to think about the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3), a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified 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.
Regulating overtime wages reasonably falls under the umbrella of intrastate commerce imo.
Corrupt Congress is letting lawless Obama Administration interfere with state sovereignty because Obama’s overtime edict probably helps to win votes from low-information citizens for state sovereignty-ignoring lawmakers.
Remember in November !
When patriots elect Trump they also need to elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its Section 8-limited powers to support the new president, including putting a stop to unconstitutional federal interference in state affairs, manupulating intrastate overtime pay in this example.
Also consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
I have a theory.
The Rats realize that the national debt is a problem.
They also realize that cutting spending is political suicide (for them).
The only way to fix the problem (in their minds) is to inflate us out of debt.
Inflation is usually bad because historically prices go up and then - eventually - wages go up. There is much economic pain until the wages eventually catch up.
They have discovered that if they can force wages to increase, they can do inflation without the pain. Wages will go up first and prices will follow. People won’t really be earning more, but most will be too stupid to figure that out.
They get the political benefit of “raising” people’s wages AND can make inroads on the debt.
From a related thread …
Once again, it’s time for "Federal Government Annual Budget 101,” the constitutionally limited power federal government's annual budget as the Founding States had likely intended for the budget to be understood.
Note that a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers. This is evidenced by the excerpt below.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
In fact, based on the Court’s statement above, here is a rough estimate of how much taxpayers should be paying Congress annually to perform its Section 8-limited power duties.
Given that the plurality of clauses in Section 8 deal with defense, and given that the Department of Defense budget for 2015 was $500+ billion, I will generously round up the $500+ billion figure to $1 trillion (but probably much less) as the annual price tag of the federal government to the taxpayers.
In other words, the corrupt media, including Obama guard dog Fx Noise, should not be reporting multi-trillion dollar annual federal budgets without mentioning the Supreme Court’s clarification of Congress’s limited power to appropriate taxes in budget discussions.
Remember in November !
When patriots elect Trump they also need to elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its Section 8-limited powers to support the new president, including putting a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes.
Also consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
Two 28 hour a week positions are forecast to replace those “40 hour” a week positions.
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