Posted on 05/19/2016 5:47:06 AM PDT by expat_panama
Being an RN, I can tell you we aren’t exempt from overtime if we are payed hourly. Management such as directors are salaried and they are exempt. In some places such as federal or state institutions, bedside RN’s may be salaried and thus are normally exempt unless they are agreeing to work extra to fill extra shifts...ect. Then other rules kick in. The issues RN’s often face are being able to get meals and proper breaks and many of us work through them at a dead run for the 12 hours we are on shift.
We use time clocks at our hospital,...our badges have scanner codes and the clock scans them. No old fashioned time cards though.
- sad - too many these days senior moments (octogenarian)
The Federal Fair Labor Standards Act gives the Executive branch the power to write these rules.
It has been the law of the land since 1938.
I agree with you that anything which affects the livelihoods of Americans SHOULD be voted up or down by our representatives. But as it stands the President does have this power, and has had it for a very long time.
If prior Republican Presidents had at least adjusted the salary threshold for inflation, it might never have become an issue.
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This isn’t confined to retail anymore. Most of the professionals I know lucky enough to have steady jobs are pretty much required to work 60-80 hours per week to meet their productivity benchmarks. Complain once about it, and you will be fired or forced to quit and probably trashed any time somebody checks references. It doesn’t help that upper management is laying off most/all of the admin staff and shoving that work off onto low-level exempt employees and interns to keep from having to compensate anyone for doing it.
I don’t see the problem with raising the exemption bar. It’s being abused. Funny how actually paying people for the work they do wasn’t a problem for most companies back before the open borders/globalization craze started. Some people won’t be happy until we’re all living like serfs.
Correction - only the salaried people who make less than $47K per year will no longer be abused for free overtime. The rest of us will continue to suck it up like adults and move to a new job if it’s too much.
If your issue is “free overtime” then why even have a salary limit to it? Or is your position one of “if you make more than $47K a year you’re part of the problem”?
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