Bush's overtime regulations take effect
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| Tue, 08-24-2004 - 1:32am |
* 5.4 million salaried workers, who under the previous regulations were unsure if they should be paid overtime, get an ironclad guarantee of overtime rights under the final rule — regardless of their job duties.* 1.3 million salaried white-collar workers, who were not entitled to overtime pay under the previous regulations, will now be entitled to either overtime pay or higher salaries.
* The changes guarantee overtime to an employee working 50 hours per week managing a restaurant for $15,600 per year; a worker putting in 60 hours a week managing a department store for $18,000 per year; an employee working 42 hours a week supervising a machine shop for $17,000 per year.
* Fraternal Order of Police National President Chuck Canterbury praises the new rules. The regulations... clarify why these employees, regardless of their rank or pay level, cannot be classified as executive, administrative or professional employees, and thus be exempted from receiving overtime pay. In addition, the Department acknowledges that the right to overtime compensation may be extended to some public safety employees who are currently classified as exempt because of changes to the regulations.
"Where others were content to ask the Department to say in its final rule only that 'no expansion of law enforcement exemptions is included in or intended by the new rules,' the Fraternal Order of Police said 'today's public safety work is more unique than ever before, and the final regulations must account for the challenges faced by our nation's first responders in the post-9/11 environment,''" Canterbury said. "The final regulations achieve that goal."
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Mich
If that is the case, then how can 6 million people be losing their overtime benefits?
I am a little confused by this issue, as I personally dont know enough about it.
I am missing your point.
I know one of my friends said it was less expensive to hire two people to work 30 hour shifts, instead of hiring one person on a 40 hour shift.
It is a pretty sad testament.
I like to play the roll of the balance sometimes.
When I see posts that attack people for things they are not responsible for, I try to call them out.
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