Republican bill will do away with overtime after 40 hours of work

[t_polkow]

Bend over and grab your ankles!

If you are one of the millions of workers who count on overtime to stretch your paycheck, including the 59% of US workers paid by the hour, it’s time to tell House Republicans, “Don’t cut my overtime with your so-called Working Families Flexibility Act (H.R. 1406).”

The bill would allow employers to stop giving workers any extra pay for overtime work and instead substitute “comp time.”


1. “Comp Time” means a pay cut—Workers compensated with time off rather than cash would see a reduction in their take-home pay.

2. “Comp Time” means mandatory overtime—“Comp time” legislation would make mandatory overtime less expensive for employers. Under “comp time” legislation, employers may be able to receive the benefits of overtime work at no additional cost to themselves.

3. “Comp Time” means more unpredictable work schedules for employees—Making mandatory overtime cheaper for employers would keep workers on the job longer and result in more unpredictable worker schedules and, for workers with children, higher day care costs.



5 Things You Need to Know About the ?Comp Time? Bill

 

[Avatar4321]

How is providing more options doing away with?

 

[Agit8r]

Bend over and grab your ankles!

If you are one of the millions of workers who count on overtime to stretch your paycheck, including the 59% of US workers paid by the hour, it’s time to tell House Republicans, “Don’t cut my overtime with your so-called Working Families Flexibility Act (H.R. 1406).”

The bill would allow employers to stop giving workers any extra pay for overtime work and instead substitute “comp time.”


1. “Comp Time” means a pay cut—Workers compensated with time off rather than cash would see a reduction in their take-home pay.

2. “Comp Time” means mandatory overtime—“Comp time” legislation would make mandatory overtime less expensive for employers. Under “comp time” legislation, employers may be able to receive the benefits of overtime work at no additional cost to themselves.

3. “Comp Time” means more unpredictable work schedules for employees—Making mandatory overtime cheaper for employers would keep workers on the job longer and result in more unpredictable worker schedules and, for workers with children, higher day care costs.



5 Things You Need to Know About the ?Comp Time? Bill

They gotta keep trying. They haven't rolled back the entire 20th Century yet.

 

[Mr Natural]

Comp time is not so bad provided you can actually take it.

Time is more important than money. You can always make more money but you can't make more time.

 

[DiamondDave]

Already a thread on this.. and the bill does not do as you claim... but nice try, troll

 

[DiamondDave]

Comp time is not so bad provided you can actually take it.

Time is more important than money. You can always make more money but you can't make more time.

For once, I actually agree with you

 

[Katzndogz]

It's the choice. The option. Liberals want to remove as many choices as possible.

 

[The Rabbi]

It's the choice. The option. Liberals want to remove as many choices as possible.

I have a customer who owns a Shakee's pizza franchise (or something similar). He has a certain number of employees who have been there a while. If one of the others calls in sick he would normally ask one of the regulars to work overtime. But if he does that, he has to pay overtime, time and a half. He can't afford it. The employee would be happy to work extra at regular time. But that option is closed. So the owner has to hire someone else part time to fill in, getting a less experienced dedicated worker.
That sucks.
But that's what gov't control is all about. The brain dead left can't get these facts through their brains.

 

[t_polkow]

How is providing more options doing away with?

Not an OPTION if your employer doesn't want to pay overtime you are shit out of luck

 

[The Rabbi]

How is providing more options doing away with?

Not an OPTION if your employer doesn't want to pay overtime you are shit out of luck

You have the option to get another job. You have the option to work overtime at normal rates.

 

[DiamondDave]

Except that is not what the bill is about... but it does not stop the likes of union thugs and left wingers from making up those lies...

 

[Politico]

Fail.

 

[Kondor3]

Here's to a quick defeat of this abortion-of-a-bill, as quickly as may be practicable.

The Pubs in Congress - many of them in-bed with Corporatists - aren't fooling anybody with this one.

The 75-year-old Overtime Laws were passed for a good reason and they have withstood the test of time for good reason, as well.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it - and - from the Little Guy's perspective, this ain't broke.

End of convo.

This 75-year-old legislation is one of only a handful of surviving protections that the union-busting Pubs haven't managed to kill-off or neutralize during the past couple of decades.

Leave it the hell alone.

We see a lot in the earliest posts here about 'Choice'.

Fine.

If an employee is to be given Comp-Time rather than Overtime Pay, then let it be the CHOICE of the EMPLOYEE rather than the Employer, as it has been for the past 75 years.

These Corporatists (and their whores sitting in various legislatures) have to be bitch-slapped upside the head every so often, to keep the worst of their greed in-check.

Here's hoping that we witness another such Grand Bitch Slap at them, in this context, in the coming weeks.

 

[AmyNation]

I don't have a problem with this. Many employers can't afford overtime pay and often let those hours go unmanned rather than pay the extra.

When I worked my crappy min. wage jobs, I would have rather had the hours and some compensation, than nothing at all.

 

[OriginalShroom]

How is providing more options doing away with?

Not an OPTION if your employer doesn't want to pay overtime you are shit out of luck

If an owner doesn't want to pay overtime, believe me, they won't.

Why do you think so many companies schedule their employees for only 36 hours a week?

You may be there 40, but you don't get paid for your lunch hour or breaks, and those are mandatory.

 

[DiamondDave]

How is providing more options doing away with?

Not an OPTION if your employer doesn't want to pay overtime you are shit out of luck

" in which the employer has offered and the employee has chosen to receive compensatory time in lieu of monetary overtime compensation; and entered into knowingly and voluntarily by such employees and not as a condition of employment."

/end thread

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Govt employees already have this policy.

 

[depotoo]

Here is the actual language within the BIll that shows that it is an option employers can offer, but it is at the discretion of the employee as to whether he accepts it or not, the employer has nothing they can do except offer it as an option, period-

here is the language from the Bill if it hasn't alredy been posted -
‘‘(B) in the case of employees who are not
4 represented by a labor organization that has
5 been certified or recognized as the representative
6 of such employees under applicable law, an
7 agreement arrived at between the employer and
8 employee before the performance of the work and
9 affirmed by a written or otherwise verifiable
10 record maintained in accordance with section
11 11(c)—
12 ‘‘(i) in which the employer has offered
13 and the employee has chosen to receive com
14 pensatory time in lieu of monetary overtime
15 compensation; and
16 ‘‘(ii) entered into knowingly and vol
17 untarily by such employees and not as a
18 condition of employment.

 

[RDD_1210]

As long as it's the choice of the employee and not the employer, I am fine with this.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Here's to a quick defeat of this abortion-of-a-bill, as quickly as may be practicable.

The Pubs in Congress - many of them in-bed with Corporatists - aren't fooling anybody with this one.

The 75-year-old Overtime Laws were passed for a good reason and they have withstood the test of time for good reason, as well.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it - and - from the Little Guy's perspective, this ain't broke.

End of convo.

This 75-year-old legislation is one of only a handful of surviving protections that the union-busting Pubs haven't managed to kill-off or neutralize during the past couple of decades.

Leave it the hell alone.

We see a lot in the earliest posts here about 'Choice'.

Fine.

If an employee is to be given Comp-Time rather than Overtime Pay, then let it be the CHOICE of the EMPLOYEE rather than the Employer, as it has been for the past 75 years.

These Corporatists (and their whores sitting in various legislatures) have to be bitch-slapped upside the head every so often, to keep the worst of their greed in-check.

Here's hoping that we witness another such Grand Bitch Slap at them, in this context, in the coming weeks.

You may want to actually read the bill, it in fact DOES leave it up to the employee. But then facts are not you liberals strong suit, lies, misinformation and misrepresentation are your normal practices.