fine but not a single merchant or businessperson knows about it
that’s what I meant
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But what you are saying is incorrect.
I work for a business and this has been known for months if not longer.
If a business employs potentially impacted non exempt employees and does not know about this, then they have chosen to remain in the dark about it.
It is a component of the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not at all secret.
You know about it. Fine. Most Merchants and small business people didn’t and still don’t. They’re busy trying to stay alive in this depression economy and nobody told them anything about this plan to try to force them to pay more. Maybe it was published in the federal regs but the business people were never told, contacted, asked for their advice or certainly not their input or votes. Now there will be some worker raises and more worker layoffs for sure — the to- be-laid off workers were never informed or asked to vote on whether they went to be unemployed either. Communist government doesn’t work well. Leaving all ideological debates aside, communism and fascism do not work well for society or for most individuals ( just for the dictators in charge and maybe a few privileged people from time to time).