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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis week in the War on Workers: Eric Cantor's plan to give bosses added power over the clock
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/27/1204876/-This-week-in-the-War-on-Workers-Eric-Cantor-s-plan-to-give-bosses-added-power-over-the-clock?1367003708
Part of Eric Cantor's big Republican rebranding agenda is to pass the Working Families Flexibility Act, which would let employers replace paying time and a half for overtime hours worked with offering comp time. Of course, it's branded as offering workers more choice. But there are a few problems with that. Working America's Doug Foote counts seven
Comp time encourages mandatory overtime and ends overtime pay as we know it. Instead of time-and-a-half pay for hours worked past 40, workers would get comp time, hours of time off to be taken later. Employers benefit because they dont have to pay overtime, plus, they can have you use your comp time in a way that wont cost them extra (during less busy periods, etc.).
According to the bill, individual employees have the choice between comp time or overtime pay. Since comp time saves the employer money, what is stopping them from inducing workers, subtly or not, into choosing comp time? They could give the comp time workers better shifts and better treatment, and they could even train workers not to take the overtime options in the same way that Target and other stores train workers not to join unions.
Comp time encourages mandatory overtime and ends overtime pay as we know it. Instead of time-and-a-half pay for hours worked past 40, workers would get comp time, hours of time off to be taken later. Employers benefit because they dont have to pay overtime, plus, they can have you use your comp time in a way that wont cost them extra (during less busy periods, etc.).
According to the bill, individual employees have the choice between comp time or overtime pay. Since comp time saves the employer money, what is stopping them from inducing workers, subtly or not, into choosing comp time? They could give the comp time workers better shifts and better treatment, and they could even train workers not to take the overtime options in the same way that Target and other stores train workers not to join unions.
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This week in the War on Workers: Eric Cantor's plan to give bosses added power over the clock (Original Post)
ashling
Apr 2013
OP
Psst - I don't think your clipboard was empty when you tried to copy the title... nt
Ruby the Liberal
Apr 2013
#3
I couldn't resist, I pasted the image from the title and wanted to post it here.
Raine1967
Apr 2013
#6
uppityperson
(115,674 posts)1. I think the thread title is a bit interesting???
ashling
(25,771 posts)12. Thank you, I try to be creative
oops!
actually, I seem to get more responses that way.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)2. Unions...this is why they are needed
Ruby the Liberal
(26,216 posts)3. Psst - I don't think your clipboard was empty when you tried to copy the title... nt
randome
(34,845 posts)4. Huh. The GD front page is formatted differently now.
I wonder if the HTTPS in the subject line caused that.
pintobean
(18,101 posts)9. Yes, I trashed this thread and it fixed it.
Got back in using the back button, so I could post this reply.
octothorpe
(962 posts)5. lol...
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)6. I couldn't resist, I pasted the image from the title and wanted to post it here.
For reasons unknown to me, I just love this somee-card.
ETA:
Eric Cantor is an petulant, smarmy, puss-laden pustule.
randome
(34,845 posts)8. Was ashling rubbed out by the powers that be? It's a conspiracy! Call 911 right fugging now!
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)10. I suspect that damned CAN'Tor
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)11. I'm retired, but I do remember women coworkers saying they really wanted the
comp time so they could have more time with their kids. It was the time, not the money, that they most coveted to have with their children. I felt sad...
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)13. kr