Posted on 06/29/2015 8:23:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says too many Americans are working long days for less pay than they deserve because of outdated rules on overtime pay.
Obama is unveiling a proposal to require overtime pay for workers who earn nearly $1,000 per week. That's more than double the current threshold. Obama says it would extend overtime protection to about 5 million workers.
Obama says the proposal is good for workers and good for business owners who pay their employees what they deserve. He says that's because those companies will no longer be undercut by competitors who are paying workers less.
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Who needs overtime if you are making 1000.00 per week. I don’t understand this.
Note that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate either intrastate minimum wage or overtime rates.
More specifically, regardless what FDR’s activist justices wanted everybody to believe about Congress’s Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3), a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that the feds have no power to regulate intrastate commerce as evidenced by the following excerpt.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Getting back to the 17th Amendment, the Founding States had not only established the federal Senate, but had granted the power to elect federal senators uniquely to state lawmakers. This is because the Founding States had expected senators to protect their states by killing bills which not only steal 10th Amendment-protected state powers, but also steal state revenues associated with those powers as evidenced by the next excerpt.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
But state lawmakers later caved into pressure by misguided, low-information citizens and ratified 17A, foolishly giving up the voices of the state legislatures in Congress by doing so.
The problem now is that low-information voters go home after voting for their favorite senators and watch football, clueless to the following major constitutional problem. Corrupt federal senators are working in cahoots with the corrupt House to pass vote-winning bills which steal unique state powers such as the power to regulate minimum wage and overtime rates.
Note that by unconstitutionally raising minimum wage and overtime rates that wage earners will have even more illegal federal taxes taken out of their paychecks.
Also consider that the corrupt Senate then confirms activist justices to the Supreme Court who then declare that the unconstitutional laws that the Senate helped the House to pass are constitutional.
What a racket!
In fact, lawless Obama undoubtedly knows that even if the House was to impeach him that the Senate would probably not remove him from office.
The bottom line is that the corrupt Senate, not the executive or judicial branches, is arguably the most unconstitutionally powerful office in the land imo.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators, a lawless president, and activist justices along with it.
So will economist be surprised when these workers see their hours cut to avoid OT?
I don’t think this faggot ever had a real job in his entire life.
Another couple of years under the rule of this communist moslem foreign degenerate and we’d be just like Zimbabwe.
Now he’s busy dictating overtime.
The numbers quoted are thresholds for automatic overtime eligibility. In other words, Obama is proposing making higher wage earners eligible for the automatic “time and a half” overtime pay rates.
Jeez - why so negative. To avoid OT companies will make sure their employees don’t get close to those hours. And will hire others instead. So the employment rate goes up!
I wonder if this is some scheme with regard to payroll taxes, insurance, etc. I imagine the government gets a bigger cut if a company has two employees working a total of 40 hours than one guy working 40 hours.
So why do we have unions again? Feds raise the minimum wage, pass laws for more overtime, and provide HC. So why do we have unions again? Oh, yeah, the Democrats keep sending jobs overseas, making the unions fight for the jobs the Democrat leadership gave away. Crazy country
BO is so generous with OPM.
Pretzel logic. You’ve summed it up, nicely.
meanwhile he’s made millions more eligible for welfare
meanwhile he’s made millions more eligible for welfare by causing the elimination of their jobs, or by erecting such barriers that new jobs are not created for them
Ah go home watch TV.. declare it as OT...
You know like many fed workers have been doing for decades..
except pad the time slip...
I see..
So he is getting rid of “Exempt” status like a manager?
How does this work if you make 70.00 per hour which is
more than 100K per year but you only work 40 hrs. you get overtime?
He makes it sound like if you make 50k a year you get overtime which I know is not really what he means.
Hence my tag line, lo these six, now seven years.
Let's see - normal work week 8 hrs per day for 5 days.
29 hour work week would be 5 days at 5.8 hours per day.
Overtime has historically been over 8 hrs per day or over 40 hours per week.
I predict that anyone working 6 or more hours a day or 30 hours a week will be shoe-horned into this "benevolent plan".
Yeah, it’s confusing the way it’s written up in the article. The way I understand it, the new rule would only apply to salaried workers and presumably the exceptions would still apply. The rule would raise the threshold for salaried workers to be eligible for automatic overtime from an annual salary of about $25,000 to about $50,000, so your hypothetical person making $70/hour still wouldn’t be eligible - their yearly salary would be too high.
Because fascism.
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