Where the hell does a #news station get off characterizing #overtime#pay as an #income transfer like the #government & #worker are stealing from #employers ?
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“In its first year, the rule is expected to result in an income transfer of about $1.5 billion from employers to workers..”
By Rebecca Gordon, originally published by Tom Dispatch April 17, 2024
"...Project 2025 doesn’t launch the typical conservative attack on the very concept of such a wage. It does, however, go after overtime pay (generally time-and-a-half for more than 40 hours of work a week), by proposing that employers be allowed to average time worked over a longer period. This would supposedly be a boon for workers, granting them the “flexibility” to labor fewer than 40 hours one week and more than 40 the next, without an employer having to pay overtime compensation for that second week.
What such a change would actually do, of course, is give an employer the power to require overtime work during a crunch period while reducing hours at other times, thereby avoiding paying overtime often or at all..."
In case you were wondering if the GOP still supports destitution.
“We’re encouraging every worker to take their lunchbreak and finish on time today, and we know that the best employers will support them doing that.
Most workers don’t mind putting in extra hours from time to time, but they should be paid for it"
TUC general secretary Paul Nowak
Hear, hear. We used to call it working to rule. In the last century, it was often more effective than strikes.