This past May, the Department of Labor announced a new rule, meant to go in effect in December, which would make salaried employees making less than $47,476 eligible for overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours a week. Currently, the threshold is only $23,660. This is a really big deal, and would certainly mean a lot to the 4.2 million workers who would benefit from this rule.
I don't understand why anyone would want overtime pay. After all, work is such an exciting adventure in itself, it's enough to make you cry when you consider that children aren't allowed to take part in it anymore.
I hate hate hate hate HATE it when workers side with the bosses against their own economic interests. Yes, hard work is a virtue. Free work, on the other hand, devalues the lives of every worker around the world.
A lot of these people aren't driven by self-interest. They're driven by spite.
As it was said, these are the people who would voluntarily elect to live, with their families, in a box under a bridge with solely half-eaten scraps to eat... as long as the (insert whatever slur) next to them neither had box nor scraps.
About the only way you can get them to act in their own self-interest is to assure them that nobody they don't like will get it or anything like it either.
I bought a small single-story 3B2B in a middle-class neighborhood. It's all locals around--no fucking golf courses, no gated communities. Our goal is to be locals; we're going to be immigrants, not expats, and we intend to live accordingly. I find it exciting to be in a country that doesn't have an army and to be part of a society that, although still not liberal and secular enough for my taste, understands that climate change is real and it's doing what it can to preserve what they have and values democracy enough to haven't had a problem electing a woman to be president.
I know my university has spent months now formalizing this new rule, finding the funding, etc. This decision creates business uncertainty. Didn't the GOP rail on about uncertainty for years under Obama?
I always feel embarrassed when, after working for two weeks, I find that my employer has slipped obscene amounts (sometimes in the hundreds, even!) of moneys into my bank account via direct deposit.I checked with my bank, and they don't have a direct give-back I can sign up for.
The law was supposed to go into effect Dec. 1, so companies have already migrated salaried employees making up to what would have been the new ceiling to hourly status. Unless they change them back, therè are now a whole lot òf people who will be clocking out instead of working extra time for free. It may have seemed like a good idea to bring suit to enable emplòýers to stiff workers making 24k to 47k but it isn't going to be so easy to put that genie back in the bottle when most of those àffected have already been made hourly for payroll purposes.
Can someone post a link to the 1913 massacre here? If not, look it up you lazy fucks
I don't understand why anyone would want overtime pay. After all, work is such an exciting adventure in itself, it's enough to make you cry when you consider that children aren't allowed to take part in it anymore.
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I hate hate hate hate HATE it when workers side with the bosses against their own economic interests. Yes, hard work is a virtue. Free work, on the other hand, devalues the lives of every worker around the world.
that does not help stop the weeping.
we need to develop a mobile app for voting.
Thanks! This sounds good. I am going to do this.>^o.o^<
Another great suggestion! I will also try this! Thanks for this too.>^o.o^<
It was supposed to?
A lot of these people aren't driven by self-interest. They're driven by spite.
As it was said, these are the people who would voluntarily elect to live, with their families, in a box under a bridge with solely half-eaten scraps to eat... as long as the (insert whatever slur) next to them neither had box nor scraps.
About the only way you can get them to act in their own self-interest is to assure them that nobody they don't like will get it or anything like it either.
I think you are right here.
I bought a small single-story 3B2B in a middle-class neighborhood. It's all locals around--no fucking golf courses, no gated communities. Our goal is to be locals; we're going to be immigrants, not expats, and we intend to live accordingly. I find it exciting to be in a country that doesn't have an army and to be part of a society that, although still not liberal and secular enough for my taste, understands that climate change is real and it's doing what it can to preserve what they have and values democracy enough to haven't had a problem electing a woman to be president.
I know my university has spent months now formalizing this new rule, finding the funding, etc. This decision creates business uncertainty. Didn't the GOP rail on about uncertainty for years under Obama?
I always feel embarrassed when, after working for two weeks, I find that my employer has slipped obscene amounts (sometimes in the hundreds, even!) of moneys into my bank account via direct deposit.I checked with my bank, and they don't have a direct give-back I can sign up for.
It has been done already. The problem is security. Voting by mail is probably safer.
I did not. Instead, I avoided that area like the plague.
The law was supposed to go into effect Dec. 1, so companies have already migrated salaried employees making up to what would have been the new ceiling to hourly status. Unless they change them back, therè are now a whole lot òf people who will be clocking out instead of working extra time for free. It may have seemed like a good idea to bring suit to enable emplòýers to stiff workers making 24k to 47k but it isn't going to be so easy to put that genie back in the bottle when most of those àffected have already been made hourly for payroll purposes.
Sad and sigh!