House Republicans have introduced a bill that would end the 40-hour work week
House Republicans have introduced a bill that would end the 40-hour work week, dismantling an important component of the Federal Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938 and hurting middle-class families across the country.
Sponsored by Rep. Martha Roby (AL), the dubiously-titled “Working Families Flexibility Act” (H.R. 1406) would remove the requirement that employers pay a cash premium for overtime work and instead allow them to offer employees compensatory time off. The effect would be an FLSA that is undermined of its only incentive against excessive hours and a cheaper way for employers to demand mandatory overtime.
Eileen Appelbaum, a senior economist with the Center for Economic Policy and Research, says the bill’s major effect would be to hurt workers, “likely increasing overtime hours for those who don’t want them and cutting pay for those who do.”
IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger wrote a letter to Congress encouraging them to vote against the bill.
“Employers can already work within the existing laws to allow workers adjusting work schedules around family needs without changing the 40-hour workweek,” Buffenbarger wrote. “‘Comp time’ proposals let the employer decide whether workers can use any accrued compensatory time. Additionally, nothing would prevent the employer from forcing workers to take time off individually or limiting whether workers can use the compensatory time at all if it is too burdensome to the work-load.”
The bill was referred to committee and could come to a vote in the House as early as next week.
http://www.goiam.org/index.php/imail/latest/11342-proposed-bill-would-end-40-hour-work-week
Who knows next month they could vote to repeal the 13th amendment for even cheaper workers.
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to get people back to work. Once this terrible restriction of 40 hour work weeks is lifted, they can get rid of minimum wage and reinstate laws on maximum wages - for workers, not business owners. Just like the good old days. Profits will soar!
From there they can get rid of that ridiculous law that forces kids to get an education instead of work. Locks and chains have become so sophisticated these days that it'll be even easier to chain the more unruly and uncooperative children to machines and desks without hurting them...too much. Glad somebody has their priorities straight. All these children out playing every day is just productivity thrown out the window. Free time is for the rich. If you don't have it, you don't deserve it.
It would also be really helpful to struggling businesses in today's economy if the people who cannot pay off their debts were thrown into jail. It worked so well before when that was common practice. Bankruptcy is for businesses, not people. All debt risk should be on the shoulders of consumers, not businesses...for goodness sakes.
While they're at it, they should reinstate laws that unjustly keep people from being owned as slaves. Think of it as a way for people to pay back their debts. And the nice thing about living in today's world is that there's no more racism...anyone can be a slave regardless of skin color. That's equality in action. So don't be calling rich people racist - that is so 17th and 18th Century.
All this is what's so awesome about Republicans. It's not that they didn't learn anything from history. They take their queues straight out of the play book. Total disregard for human rights has worked for ages at protecting wealth, status, and power. Why stop now. The New Deal along with the rise of unions were just bumps in the road, a sign that their strategy of putting a middle class between themselves and the discontent of the unwashed masses had gone a little too far. Readjustments are being made.
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it happens all the fucking time anyway. Might as well adjust the law to reflect reality since we don't bother enforcing existing laws as it is.
If this bill gets passed it's open season on workers. 
