If they want overtime they can get a different job. Businesses budget a certain amount for salaries. They’ll just limit hours or fire people. If they can’t succeed without the labor they’ll change business models or go out of business. Either way the overtime leaches will be on unemployment.
I used to work for a shop that paid overtime for anything over 8 hours regardless of total hours worked per week.
I liked it but I would never presume to think it should be imposed on other employers.
Agreed. This is coming from a salaried worker who appreciates the difficulties running a business. I work when I need to and don’t mind putting in extra hours.
“If they want overtime they can get a different job.”
Not so easy these days (and companies know it); that response is simply met by fed-up workers with votes for the communists.
“If they can’t succeed without the labor they’ll change business models or go out of business.”
No; they go elsewhere to places where they can work people to death for peanuts. By all indications, any company that hasn’t already done so is working on it. I live in an area where mining was a big driver of the economy since prior to the American Revolution, and the conditions were bleak; we’re seeing the return of those same conditions.