Assault on american workforce continues

[deacon]

this administration hates us!

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Labor Department is giving employers tips on how to avoid paying overtime to some of the 1.3 million low-income workers who would become eligible under new rules expected to be finalized early this year.

The department's advice comes even as it touts the $895 million in increased wages that it says those workers would be guaranteed from the reforms, which Labor Secretary Elaine Chao called long overdue.

Among the options for employers: cut workers' hourly wages and add the overtime to equal the original salary, or raise salaries to the new $22,100 annual threshold, making them ineligible.

and they wonder why there is anger?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-3589984,00.html

[ComerPerro]

1. Actually, I thnk you should have said

"I wonder why there is no anger".

Because, shit, no one is discussing this at all. No one talks about it, and blue collar average Americans are just blindly supporting Bush. Its really just fucking sickening.

[Cloud]

2. That upsets me.

The standard workweek is 40 hours. If you are there longer than that you should be compensated with overtime pay. No exceptions. :grr