Posted on 11/21/2016 3:34:06 AM PST by Kaslin
The USPS must serve all locations. A package, mailed in Anchorage sent to Little Diomede Island (where you can see Russia) must be transported, often by jet to Nome, and then helicopter to Little Diomede.
And if the grocery store on that island wants items from a grocery wholesaler, you can bet that it is shipped by inexpensive postal rates.
That is one issue that a federally mandated bureaucracy must face.
This "decision" increased the minimum salary for exempt employees by over 100%. Despite the left's insistence that employers would magically increase pay for the affected workers, the effect is to push lower-management employees back to hourly wages--increasing withholding taxes while denying businesses management options.
Check out the official FAQ:
9. Q. How will employers implement the updated salary level requirement established in this Final Rule?
Employers have a range of options for responding to the updated standard salary level. For each affected employee newly entitled to overtime pay, employers may: increase the salary of an employee who meets the duties test to at least the new salary level to retain his or her exempt status;
The circumstances of each affected employee will likely impact how employers respond to this Final Rule. For example, employers may be more likely to give raises to employees who regularly work overtime and earn slightly below the new standard salary level, in order to maintain their overtime-exempt status so that the employer does not have to pay the overtime premium. For employees who rarely or almost never work overtime hours, employers may simply choose to pay the overtime premium whenever necessary. The Department accounted for these (and other) possible employer responses in estimating the likely costs, benefits, and transfers of the Final Rule.
Nothing in the rule requires employers to change employees' pay to hourly from salaried, even if the employees' classification changes from exempt to overtime eligible. Employers may choose options #2-#4 above while continuing to pay newly overtime eligible employees on a salaried basis.
I raised this very point (albeit not as succinctly put in LIZ's reply) at our meeting last Thursday.
Besides myself, we have one other director that is a born again Christian and REALLY trying to correct some wrongs and protect the kids
OUR board has been in office (except me and Ed) for anywhere from 12 years to 20 years.
I have already started rumor campaigns in the other districts to get people to run for the office when it comes up and vote out the long teeth.
Thank you Liz, for your reply
In Imperial China the Mandarins were the scholar bureaucrats, a very rarefied class, requiring years of test taking that winnowed the initial pool of applicants down to the very, very few who then wielded enormous incontestable power in the name of the Emperor over regular people.
So I just figured out that Cliff the postal guy at the Cheers bar was on his lunch break.
Shouldn’t “photoed” be photographed? I have never heard of the term photoed.
Good! But the president elect, his AG and the [hopefully new] director of the FBI also need to take a long, hard look at this “Rent an Anarchist” movement, the sources of their funding and the destruction and injury they’ve wrought all over the country and pursue RICO and conspiracy charges against those responsible.
Romanian term limits if it comes to that
Poster’s poetic license....you never heard of o’er, and ne’er....but they are used.
Thank you for what you are doing.
Fight on FRiend.
I'll see you at the barricades. d;^)
Those college snowflakes and lunatics bought by Soros ?
87% of all the American electorate, college stoonts, loafers on the dole, etc. - are public HS grads
They've been working at this since the 60's
Prior to that it WAS the three R's and CITIZENSHIP, which explains the "educational" shift and the resulting social (dis) order since the 60"s
The American before the 60's went to the moon.
Now we're going to the dogs.
Even so, come quickly President Trump.
“We have elected a man famous for two words: “You’re fired!” For Trump to legalize that simple act, as necessary in the government as in business, will be nothing less than a revolution.”.........
And a long overdue revolution indeed! Trump will operate the U.S. like a business, we definitely need that thinking.
LOL, I was in the Utah town of Ogden and the only bars they had in those days served 3.2 beer.
Those were the days....
They already do down here in southern Utah. We have no postal service except a P.O. Box. FedEx and UPS drivers are all on first name basis. And wow are they dependable.
First time I heard of 3.2 beers was army days in Georgia decades ago.
3.2 beer was a big laugh to serious soldiers from rust belt states like MN, WI, MI, OH - They knew how to drink real beer.
Creative transfers to neutered govt. departments would be way to rein in tyrannical Bureaucrats.
Mandarin is not just a Chinese language - it was a social class that ran the Imperial Bureaucracy. It was very powerful.
Initial position was determine by tests - on Chinese classics, poetry and calligraphy.
(in the Chinese Empire) a member of any of the nine ranks of public officials, each distinguished by a particular kind of button worn on the cap.
Later on:
an influential or powerful government official or bureaucrat.
OR
a member of an elite or powerful group or class, as in intellectual or cultural milieus:
the mandarins of the art world.
4 l8r
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