With out a way to bargain effectively that may change. I do not trust congress or business. If both thought they could I hav no daoubt we would return to the gilded age.
See the overtime law overhaul a ferw years back. I know of two people who once got OT but after that law no more. They were given comp time. One had enough comp time to take this month off. He was turned down. And it is use it or lose it at the end of the year.
Can he not go to the Labor Board in his State and file a complaint?