Posted on 05/17/2016 5:18:40 PM PDT by jazusamo
I suspect that the place where I work was planning on making thousands of low level managers salaried. They have been cutting positions since Obama came along, plus cutting hours for others. They also created a new lower level management position to take the place of a higher manager, and these managers have been taking up the slack, but it has been getting harder for them to do their job plus every other downsized job dumped on them in 40 hours. The solution, of course, would be to make the low level managers salaried at a low pay scale. Then they could work for 60-80 hours doing the work of five people for less than minimum wage.
If we had an economy worth a d***, people who felt a company was abusing them by imposing too heavy a workload could just go elsewhere.
The problem I see with this rule is that it kills the salaried person willing to voluntarily work long hours to get ahead in the company. That was always my route to whatever success I had...
This country is going to be left with no work ethic at all, as is intended, I suppose.
I’m sure Congress is working on a fix as we speak./s
Secretly? That’s patently absurd.
We’ve been scoping this work out for months now, the only question being what the cutoff figure would be.
fine but not a single merchant or businessperson knows about it
that’s what I meant
Obama is leaving a MESS for the Donald to have to clean up in a couple of months.
fine but not a single merchant or businessperson knows about it
that’s what I meant
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But what you are saying is incorrect.
I work for a business and this has been known for months if not longer.
If a business employs potentially impacted non exempt employees and does not know about this, then they have chosen to remain in the dark about it.
It is a component of the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not at all secret.
Another regulation added to Directive 10-289.
It’s not that strange a request. Employers have used salaried positions to avoid overtime for a while. My daughter’s employer is chomping at the bit to convert her to management so they can move her from 29 hours to 60 hours. This rule would ruin their plans.
It will have a huge impact on retail where this occurs frequently.
When you add in employees working from home after work hours (as I do), it starts to add up.
You know about it. Fine. Most Merchants and small business people didn’t and still don’t. They’re busy trying to stay alive in this depression economy and nobody told them anything about this plan to try to force them to pay more. Maybe it was published in the federal regs but the business people were never told, contacted, asked for their advice or certainly not their input or votes. Now there will be some worker raises and more worker layoffs for sure — the to- be-laid off workers were never informed or asked to vote on whether they went to be unemployed either. Communist government doesn’t work well. Leaving all ideological debates aside, communism and fascism do not work well for society or for most individuals ( just for the dictators in charge and maybe a few privileged people from time to time).
https://www.dol.gov/whd/overtime/final2016/
You should really try to be more informed about things if you intend to comment about them.
It’s been out there for more than 2 years now, and if you read the document at the link, you’ll learn that there has been considerably more discussion and communication about this that you are aware of.
It’s OK, though, it clearly does not apply to you in any way, shape, or form. It does not appear that you are a non exempt employee earning less than 47K.
No, I am not impacted by the illegal Communist dicator’s order. indeed, I lack employment where I could benefit from it. There are almost no jobs in this depressed economy, outside of a couple of specialized sectors and geographical locations.
I was commenting about how our “system” is broken and noting how some will get paid more...congratualations to you..... while others will need to get laid off now.
Also, since you indicated an interest, I have never been paid one red cent for any of the many thousands of hours of overtime hours I’ve worked when I had regular employment. Not extra pay for overtime. Not any pay whatsoever for overtime. Not one cent. (And I never would look to government to force my employer to pay me monies I didn’t negotiate with him for my labors, from my perspective its simple theft where some folks get helped by a corrupt big bully and everyone else suffers....is all...but that’s just my “conservative” political sentiment and you may differ of course. Perhaps given human nature... if government came around and forced my employer to raise my pay... I might change my tune and vote for those politicians who used our government in that manner.... its always nice to get more pay, after all!!! Regardless of how it gets into your checque, it still spends! But anyway all chatter about corrupt political hacks buying votes with other people’s money, I wish you all the best!.. and I am confident you will find many nice things to purchase with your higher wage cheque. Best to you!)
So how is this going to work out for teachers, who notoriously take home papers to correct?
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