Posted on 05/19/2016 8:35:10 PM PDT by Nachum
Juggling work and family life is hard. On Wednesday the Labor Department made it even harder for millions of salaried workers. The administration’s new overtime regulations will effectively turn them into hourly employees.
The regulation won’t increase their earnings, but it will greatly reduce their control over their schedules. The Fair Labor Standards Act requires employers to pay hourly workers overtime for working over 40 hours a week.
But the Fair Labor Standards Act regulations exempt many salaried employees. This makes sense: Salaried employees get paid to do a particular job, not work particular hours. They also generally have more control over when and where they work.
Many salaried employees have the flexibility to do things like take off early in the afternoon to attend a child’s soccer game, and then finish their work from home in the evening when their child has gone to sleep. Similarly, millions of salaried employees telecommute at least once a month.
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I’m sure Trump is listening.
Get. Government. Out. Of. Our. Lives.
That time has come.
We must keep in mind that these young managers are our people, putting in the extra hours to get ahead. In the ultimate form of capitalism it is ok to OWN another human being. I don’t enjoy sticking it to employers but if they overwork these employees and Obama sticks up for them we lose them-period.
“Get. Government. Out. Of. Our. Lives.
“That time has come.”
He has the chance to shut down entire agencies that have declared war on the American people. HUD. EPA. DOE. add your favorite to the Hit List
No one should ever be allowed to work in the Labor Department or even recommend any rules or regulations unless they have successfully owned a for-profit business for at least five years. BO and the DC idiots are well on their way to destroying business in the U.S. and our Republican House and Senate are sitting around with their thumb in their ear - probably because few of them have ever run a business and haven’t a clue.
Yup. All the antiquated BS 1970s liberal agencies created to placate the hippies.
I've had many salaried jobs and in none of them did I have control over when and where I worked. And if I had 39 hours on my timesheet HR would ask why I didn't add one vacation hour to bring it up to 40. Now if I came in over 40 they didn't complain one bit. I knew what I was getting into when I started, but the vast majority of salaried jobs would be wage jobs if DOL rules were followed strictly.
Was talking with someone today about this, and he said it was a give-away to municipal and state employees (maybe fed) who are on salary, especially those from small townships and the like.
His thoughts were that it was a hand-out to shore up their vote in November.
Interesting perspective, one I hadn’t thought of, but curious in any event.
I’ve been required to work specific hours on every salaried job I ever had. And if I missed work I was docked. That’s why I got on commission and stayed there until I retired.
Nothing zero has done has worked....
The media has done a terrible job reporting this one. No mention at all of the thousands of jobs to be lost and thousands who will have hours reduced to comply with the latest diktat from the Kremlin at 1600 Penn.
The media seems to think there are free lunches everywhere.
I sense a personal ax grinding in the background, but irrespective of that . . . we gain the ones demoted and laid off as a result by this economically deranged policy.
“I don’t enjoy sticking it to employers but if they overwork these employees and Obama sticks up for them we lose them-period.”
That’s a great point and worth repeating; now matter how we look at it, working people that feel they are exploited aren’t going support the party that prevents them from earning more for longer hours.
“I’ve had many salaried jobs and in none of them did I have control over when and where I worked.”
Same here; the wording of the law doesn’t meet the definition of many jobs I’ve worked or seen. By moving up the salary for anyone to be considered “salaried” versus hourly, this rule can only prevent exploitation. Defending companies (which I understand are necessary for an economy to flourish) on this issue is a political minefield. It is addressing one of the issues involved in the discussion about American workers not getting real raises for over a decade.
Call me contrarian, but if you work the hours you should be paid for the hours.
“Call me contrarian, but if you work the hours you should be paid for the hours.”
What if I sign a contract that says otherwise?
What if both I and the company that hires me want to agree to different rules?
In an attempt to prevent overly powerful companies from using their job market power to impose rules on less powerful employees, such a rules prevents me from negotiating rules that suit my purposes.
I want the government to leave me alone.
“Call me contrarian, but if you work the hours you should be paid for the hours.”
I do get paid for the hours, just not the same amount per hour every pay period.
When a person is offered a salaried position they totally understand that overtime is not paid. If they don’t like that, then they don’t take the job. If they are required to work more overtime than they expected, they should quit and let someone else have the job. The nanny state MUST keep of it.
Look for a job on company time then quit.
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