[reaganaut1]

It's not good politics to say it, but I think we ought to scrap the concept of a 40-hour week and let employers and employees decide how long the work week should be and what the pay should be.

[DonaldC]

That will bring back unions like you wouldn’t believe.

[Rusty0604]

You mean let people make their own decisions? What a novel idea!

[DonaldC]

The article mentions now hours for salaried folks will need to be tracked. I’ve never been on a job where hours were not tracked and in IT, they are meticulously tracked for billing and such. Is that everyone else’s experience as well?

[mbarker12474]

Why doesn’t the President and his executive branch simply declare by edict what everybody’s pay is, and get it over with.

We are nibbling at the edges of something which should have been stomped to the ground long ago. Presidents have zero power to declare anything whatsoever about wages.

And by the way, neither does Congress.

[DannyTN]

I agree with DonaldC, that would boost unions. The history is that employers worked employees abusive hours.

The real problem is that you can’t have wage and labor laws, social programs, environment laws, worker safety laws, and free trade with countries that don’t have similar laws.

We need to restore the import tariffs before we provide even more incentive for companies to go overseas.