[buckalfa]

"I don’t enjoy sticking it to employers but if they overwork these employees and Obama sticks up for them we lose them-period."

Call me contrarian, but if you work the hours you should be paid for the hours.

[conejo99]

“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.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

“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.