VRWC War on Employees: "Working Families Flexibility Act."

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"About 40,000 Verizon workers are on strike because Verizon

continues to keep wages down,

shipping jobs overseas,

slashing retiree health care,

freezing pensions, and

cutting the number of full-time workers –

even though it’s raking in over $1.5 billion a month in profits.

Instead of investing those profits in high-speed internet, it’s spending $35 billion to buy Yahoo and billions more in stock buybacks, and paying its top executives astronomical sums (over the past five years alone, CEO Lowell McAdam has raked in $89.6 billion).

It’s also among the nation’s biggest lobbyists and campaign contributors.

Verizon is exhibit #1 for what’s wrong with the U.S. economy. Verizon's striking workers deserve your support."

Robert Reich/Facebook.

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Overtime Pay: A Lifeline for the Overworked American

THIS summer the Department of Labor is expected to introduce new rules to restore overtime pay to millions of Americans — rules that require no congressional approval. From the fearful protests coming from Republican leadership, you’d think the sky was falling. “This mandate on employers will hurt the lowest paid American workers the most, by reducing their opportunities for a promotion or a better job,” said Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, the chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

In fact, far from the right’s end-of-the-world, Chicken-Little economics, restoring time-and-a-half overtime pay would return to American workers a protection they long had, one that made them more secure and productive.

Half a century ago, overtime pay was the norm, with more than 60 percent of salaried employees qualifying. These are largely the sorts of office- and service-sector workers who never enjoyed the protection of union membership.

But over the last 40 years the threshold has been allowed to steadily erode, so that only about 8 percent qualify today.

If you feel as if you’re working longer hours for less money than your parents did, it’s probably because you are.

Today, if you’re salaried and earn more than $23,600 dollars a year, you don’t automatically qualify for overtime: That means every extra hour you work, you work free.

Under the new proposed rules, everyone earning a salary of $50,440 a year or less would be eligible to collect time-and-a-half pay for every hour worked over 40 hours a week.

According to the Economic Policy Ins ute, it would give 13.5 million more workers a new or stronger right to overtime pay — substantially increasing both middle-class incomes and employment. It’s not as high as the $69,000 threshold it would take to return to 1975 levels, after adjusting for inflation, but it’s a courageous step in the right direction. It’s like a minimum wage hike for the middle class.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/op...er=rss&emc=rss

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Florida’s Rick Scott picks a curious fight with California

Usually, Republican governors are content to oppose minimum-wage increases in their own state, but this week, Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) talked up his opposition to a wage hike in a state he has nothing to do with. The NBC affiliate in Miami reported:

Scott on Wednesday announced he’s going on a trade mission to California to try to woo businesses away from the Golden State. The Republican governor visited several states last year run by Democrats where he denounced their taxes and business climate.

In his release, Scott contended companies would want to leave California because of a “crippling” increase in the minimum wage. Gov. Jerry Brown earlier this month signed into law a measure that will lift the statewide minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...d=sm_fb_maddow

"Come to Florida! Florida employers screw their low-wage employees all the time, steal their wages, rape them, pocket their withholdings, fire them for getting sick or pregnant, and I, Rick Scott, guarantee you I won't enforce any labor laws"

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GE Considers Scrapping the Annual Raise

GE executives are reviewing whether annual updates to compensation are the best response to the achievements and needs of employees.

“We uncovered an opportunity to improve the way we reward people for their contributions,” Janice Semper, GE’s head of executive development, said in an e-mailed response to questions. She said it will involve “being flexible and re-thinking how we define rewards, acknowledging that employees and managers are already thinking beyond annual compensation in this space.”

When GE considers something like that, “other companies will do it too,”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-06/ge-studies-scrapping-annual-raise-in-nod-to-shifting-priorities

(young) employees, paying down college debt, starting families, trying to buy homes want LESS money?

What BigCorp BULL ING . Less money for labor means more money for capitalists.

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Laid-Off Americans, Required to Zip Lips on Way Out, Grow Bolder

American corporations are under new scrutiny from federal lawmakers after well-publicized episodes in which the companies laid off American workers and gave the jobs to foreigners on temporary visas.

But while corporate executives have been outspoken in defending their labor practices before Congress and the public, the American workers who lost jobs to global outsourcing companies have been largely silent.

Until recently. Now some of the workers who were displaced are starting to speak out, despite severance agreements prohibiting them from criticizing their former employers.

Marco Peña was among about 150 technology workers who were laid off in April by Abbott Laboratories, a global health care conglomerate with headquarters here. They handed in their badges and computer passwords, and turned over their work to a company based in India. But Mr. Peña, who had worked at Abbott for 12 years, said he had decided not to sign the agreement that was given to all departing employees, which included a nondisparagement clause.

Mr. Peña said his choice cost him at least $10,000 in severance pay. But on an April evening after he walked out of Abbott’s tree-lined campus here for the last time, he spent a few hours in a local bar at a gathering organized by technology worker advocates, speaking his mind about a job he had loved and lost.

“I just didn’t feel right about signing,” Mr. Peña said. “The clauses were pretty blanket. I felt like they were eroding my rights.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/us...er=rss&emc=rss

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The Workers Who Feed Members Of Congress Will Share $1 Million In Back Pay After Years Of Abuse

Two companies that run food service at the U.S. Capitol will pay a million dollars in back wages to almost 700 workers who they cheated out of their pay, the Department of Labor announced Tuesday.

The men and women who serve Congress its food clawed their way into Washington’s conscience over the past couple of years with a series of strikes and walkouts as part of a campaign for higher wages and union rights. The strikes at the Capitol and in other federal buildings in the Washington, D.C. area helped persuade President Obama to issue three executive orders mandating higher wages and stronger workplace protections for workers hired by federal contractors.

A handful of workers became the face of the union-backed Good Jobs Nation campaign with wrenching stories about earning too little to survive in D.C. or to keep their families together. But the penalties handed down Tuesday suggest the federal contractor taxpayers pay to staff cafeterias on Capitol Hill were not just paying too little to keep up with the skyrocketing cost of living. They were outright breaking the law.

The companies routinely failed to pay overtime and misclassified many workers so that they could pay them lower hourly wages than their actual work duties should have earned according to the federal contract for cafeteria service,

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...rs-wage-theft/

... but "corporate shield' protects managers from fines or jail.

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a deeply blue state, natch

Illegal in Massachusetts: Asking Your Salary in a Job Interview

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/bu...imes&smtyp=cur

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Even Dems wage War on Employees

Schrader bill would gut the Department of Labor’s new overtime

http://www.epi.org/publication/schrader-bill-would-gut-the-department-of-labors-new-overtime-rule/

https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00030071


Not clear which donor(s) pay KS to try to over low-end employess. Home Depot is clearly one.

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Famous Restaurant Chain Busted in Elaborate Scam to Rip Off Workers

Darden Restaurants, which also owns Bahama Breeze, Seasons 52, Eddie V’s Prime Seafood, the Capital Grille, and the Yard House, doesn’t pay its workers with cash or checks like other restaurants. Instead, Darden pays its employees with payroll debit cards.

While the debit cards cost the employer $2.75 less per pay period, the workers bear the brunt of the cost,

paying as much as $1.75 in fees to withdraw money from an out-of-network ATM,

$0.75 just to check the card’s balance,

$0.99 to use the card to pay a utility bill, and

an additional $0.50 if the debit card is declined at a cash register.

Given that tipped workers only earn a paltry $2.13 an hour, the fees associated with prepaid debit cards can eat up a large portion of a Darden worker’s hard-earned money.

Prepaid debit cards are becoming an increasingly popular method of payment for employers. According to a 2015 study from the Restaurant Opportunties Center United (ROC United),

7.4 million American workers are paid with prepaid debit cards, and as many as 12.2 million Americans will be paid with prepaid debit cards by 2019.

Darden Restaurants saves an estimated $5 million per year by paying employees with debit cards instead of checks.

ROC United’s study, which surveyed roughly 200 employees from all Darden brands except for Eddie V’s Prime Seafood, uncovered several alarming statistics:

• 23 percent of Darden employees reported not receiving any instructions from management on how to use the debit cards.
• 76 percent of employees reported losing out on wages due to ATM fees.
• 24 percent of employees reported having to pay fees on the cards at points of purchase.
• 63 percent of Darden employees told ROC United they weren’t told about the fees associated with the cards.
• 42 percent of workers reported problems accessing their money using the cards.
• 49 percent of Darden workers reported they didn’t have access to an ATM within the card’s network, having to pay a fee just to withdraw their wages.
• 54 percent of employees who used the debit cards to pay for gasoline reported large authorization holds on their cards.
• 26 percent of Darden employees told ROC United they weren’t able to choose an alternative form of payment.

In addition to Darden, the restaurant chain’s banking partners issuing the cards also receive a huge windfall as a result of the exploitation of the roughly 70,000 workers paid with debit cards.

ThinkProgress reported that Darden’s financial partners earn about $1.75 per card, meaning they bring in an extra $1.5 million each year.

http://usuncut.com/class-war/darden-...g-off-workers/

BigCorp in complicity with BigBank to poverty-wage employees.

BigBank: "We'll save you $Ms, we will make $Ms, and together we will over your poverty-wage employees".

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Worker Hours Are More Unpredictable Than Ever

After the recession, hourly workers have a harder time.

What a job looks like has changed for many people since the recession. In general, things are looking up: Both unemployment and jobless claims are falling. But a good chunk of job creation has come at the highest and lowest ends of the spectrum, a trend that has only recently started to change with gains for middle-wage earners.

Many people who lost well-paying jobs have found work, but for less money, doing hourly retail and food services jobs.
These new hourly workers not only make less money, but they have much less predictable schedules than hourly workers had before the recession, according to a new study from the University of California, Davis.

"The jobs replacing the ones that were lost after the recession ended were a lot of low-wage hourly jobs with really variable schedules," said Ryan Finnigan, an assistant professor at U.C. Davis and one of the researchers who worked on the study.

Workers in these new economy jobs might work 38 hours one week and 15 the next. "Even though unemployment has sunk down, the quality of the jobs that replaced the ones that were lost were not quite the same," Finnigan added

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...able-than-ever

So for Ms of Americans, life has gotten much tier, less secure, and inevitable poverty after 65.

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In a Major Reversal, Labor Board Says Graduate Student Workers at Private Colleges Can Unionize

Reversing a landmark ruling from the George W. Bush era ( of course! ) , the National Labor Relations Board ruled today that graduate students who work as teaching and research assistants at private universities have the right to form labor unions.

"This is a historic moment," said Julie Kushner, director of the northeast chapter of the United Auto Workers, which challenged the Bush-era NLRB ruling on behalf of graduate-student workers at Columbia University.

"There are tens of thousands of workers at private universities across the United States that will reap the benefits of unionization."

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...organize-union

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Worker Hours Are More Unpredictable Than Ever

After the recession, hourly workers have a harder time.

What a job looks like has changed for many people since the recession. In general, things are looking up: Both unemployment and jobless claims are falling. But a good chunk of job creation has come at the highest and lowest ends of the spectrum, a trend that has only recently started to change with gains for middle-wage earners.

Many people who lost well-paying jobs have found work, but for less money, doing hourly retail and food services jobs.
These new hourly workers not only make less money, but they have much less predictable schedules than hourly workers had before the recession, according to a new study from the University of California, Davis.

"The jobs replacing the ones that were lost after the recession ended were a lot of low-wage hourly jobs with really variable schedules," said Ryan Finnigan, an assistant professor at U.C. Davis and one of the researchers who worked on the study.

Workers in these new economy jobs might work 38 hours one week and 15 the next. "Even though unemployment has sunk down, the quality of the jobs that replaced the ones that were lost were not quite the same," Finnigan added

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...able-than-ever

So for Ms of Americans, life has gotten much tier, less secure, and inevitable poverty after 65.

That is what we have been saying for years when you bragged about the low unemployment rate.

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That is what we have been saying for years when you bragged about the low unemployment rate.

What? Your obtuseness is approaching that of TB

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Chris Christie Vetoed the $15 Minimum Wage Bill For New Jersey Restaurant Workers

he described the measure as being a “really radical increase” which “would trigger an escalation of wages that will make doing business in New Jersey unaffordable.”

Democratic leaders will now put the measure on the Fall 2017 ballot and let voters decide. Unfortunately, that still leaves New Jersey way behind New York. According to The Times, by 2018 New York restaurant workers could be earning $6 an hour more than their neighbors across the river.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/chris...urant-workers/

Wall St Fat Boy solidifying his bona fides as Repug Warrior on Employees, spouting bull justifications with no evidence.

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The Shackling of the American City

Local governments want to set their own minimum wages, gun laws, and smoking bans. And statehouses have methodically stripped away their powers to do so.


In May 2011, Wisconsin’s Republican Gov. Scott Walker, approved Senate Bill 23, which prohibited the state’s municipalities from enacting paid sick leave laws. From the outside, it might’ve appeared as if he was swinging a sledgehammer at a very tiny nail.

While the bill applied to every city, town, village, and county in Wisconsin, only one jurisdiction in the state had a paid sick leave law on the books: Milwaukee, a Democratic stronghold.

Milwaukee’s ordinance, approved in a 2008 referendum by 69 percent of voters, would have required large businesses to offer full-time workers nine paid sick days a year and businesses with fewer than 10 employees to offer five sick days a year. Ensnared by legal challenges, the law had never taken effect but had been ruled cons utional by the state’s 4th District Court of Appeals in March 2011. Two months later, Bill 23 arrived on Walker’s desk, and paid sick leave in Wisconsin was dead.

pre-emption is a tool used by conservative statehouses to restrict the ability of cities, towns, and counties to chart their own destiny.

To understand how, consider the path that Bill 23 took after Walker signed it. In the summer of 2011, copies were handed out at the annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, a 43-year-old organization that brings together state legislators and corporate representatives to write cookie-cutter laws for statehouses across the country. Its members include many of the nation’s largest companies, a quarter of state legislators, one-fifth of the U.S. Congress, and seven sitting governors.

Since its distribution in the ALEC committee room, along with a U.S. map designed by the National Restaurant Association,

versions of the sick leave policy have been adopted in
Alabama,
Arizona,
Florida,
Indiana,
Kansas,
Louisiana,
Michigan,
Mississippi,
Missouri,
Oklahoma, and
Tennessee. red states!

Cities in those states no longer have the right to decide whether the people who work there ought to receive a guarantee of sick time with pay.

ALEC has successfully pushed pre-emption into more and more areas of GOP policy, from guns and tobacco to sanctuary cities, pesticides, and even municipal broadband.

The tactic has consumed state-level lawmaking as American political life has become increasingly polarized between Republican-led statehouses (the most since the 1920s) and Democrat-controlled cities (almost all of the nation’s largest).

Thanks in part to ALEC’s promotion of the concept, pre-emption has become the most powerful statehouse tactic of our time.

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/metropolis/2016/09/how_alec_acce_and_pre_emptions_laws_are_gutting_th e_powers_of_american_cities.html

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Oklahoma’s Top Court: Companies Can’t Set Own Rules for Injured Workers

A national campaign led by Walmart, Lowe’s and other big companies to let employers opt out of workers’ comp insurance was dealt a blow after the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled such plans uncons utional.

https://www.propublica.org/article/o...ent=1473808783

and of course, TX has an asshole crusader dedicated to killing all workman's comp, because it's ing TX.

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Rep. Tom McClintock: Equal pay means women lose out on $1/hour jobs and ‘opportunity to negotiate’

California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock recently cited $1/hour jobs and the “opportunity to negotiate” as reasons that women are better off without the protection of equal pay laws.

“I believe that every person ought to have the freedom to negotiate terms that satisfactory to them and to their employer without some third party butting his nose into the transaction,” he opined. “That’s called freedom. It works and it’s time we put it back to work.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/rep-tom-mcclintock-equal-pay-means-women-lose-out-on-1hour-jobs-and-opportunity-to-negotiate/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29

Repugs and Repugs voters are stupid ing misogynists.

"Hey lady, here's your big McClintock break, here's how I negotiate your "freedom": either you take $1/hour or GTFO"

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Gig workers make up 30% of labor force, says McKinsey study

Traditional 9-to-5 jobs are evaporating as more people make a living as independent workers. Now a major study from McKinsey Global Ins ute has found that the gig economy is much bigger than previously thought.

“Up to 30 percent of working-age people in the United States and Western Europe are engaging in independent work, either as their primary source or supplemental source of income,”

Some 70 percent reported that they fly solo out of choice. “They enjoy being their own boss, they have more creativity, and more opportunity to learn and grow,” Lund said.

The study shattered some common perceptions.

Only a minority of independent workers are Uber or Lyft drivers, a visible segment that many people think of first when the subject of gig workers comes up.

Instead, most have more familiar occupations: doctors and dentists, accountants and therapists, plumbers and electricians, gardeners and construction workers, retail clerks and computer programmers.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/...ys-9957527.php

Freedom offsets:

no job or income security,

no employer contributions to pension,

no paid vacation/sick days?,

pay employer's payroll taxes, etc?

I'd really like to know how much gig workers NET per year.

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A labor group has made an app to help Walmart workers organize — and the company is freaking out

Walmart has long been the toughest nut for labor organizers to crack, as the company’s brutally effective anti-union campaigns have regularly crushed unions’ efforts to get workers to sign up.

However, a labor group called OUR Walmart has come out with

a new mobile application that Walmart workers can use on their phones to help them organize for better wages and benefits —

and it seems that Walmart is not happy about it.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Walmart has sent out warnings to all of its employees that they should not download and install the WorkIt app onto their devices because it will allegedly swipe all their important personal information. LIE!

In reality, the Journal notes, it only asks users to register and share their job les and Walmart store numbers — and its permissions do not include location data, contacts or photos.

The purpose of the app is to help workers communicate with one another so they can learn about their rights as employees, as well as to develop strategies for improving workplace policies.

While there are already a lot of online forums where Walmart employees gather to talk about issues at work, OUR Walmart wants to give employees a centralized hub to help them with all of their complaints and questions.

Bloomberg notes that the app takes advantage of IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence chatbot to quickly answer employees’ questions about company policies and worker rights.

“On the first day, a group of 18 current and former employees identified 50 main issues and wrote questions workers might ask,” Bloomberg writes.

“They spent the next day answering them, relying on policy manuals that OUR Walmart had pieced together over the years, their own experience, and some expert advice. By the end they’d trained Watson to answer 93 questions.”

And because Watson is designed to keep learning, the app will only get smarter the more that people use it.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/a-labor-group-has-made-an-app-to-help-walmart-workers-organize-and-the-company-is-freaking-out/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29

I suppose W-M will hire the Russians to crack the server and learn the names and comments of all the workers.

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This week in the war on workers: What happens if Obama's overtime expansion is reversed?

Department of Labor’s takeaways from a Congressional Budget Office report:

1. CBO finds that reversing the rule would strip nearly 4 million workers of overtime protections. According to the report, there are nearly 4 million workers whose employers will be required to pay them overtime when they work more than 40 hours a week when the rule goes into effect.
2. CBO finds that reversing the rule would reduce workers’ earnings while increasing the hours they work. The report finds that if the rule is reversed, the total annual earnings of all affected workers would decrease by more than $500 million in 2017. Further, these workers would earn less money while working more hours.
3. At a time when income inequality is already of great concern, CBO finds that reversing the rule would primarily benefit people with high incomes. If the rule were reversed, affected workers, most of whom have moderate incomes, would experience a loss in earnings. These losses would be accompanied by an increase in firms’ profits, of which the vast majority (CBO estimates 85 percent) would accrue to people in the top income quintile.
4. CBO finds that reversing the rule would not create or save jobs. The report finds no significant impact on the number of jobs in the economy.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/19/1601007/-This-week-in-the-war-on-workers-What-happens-if-Obama-s-overtime-expansion-is-reversed?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm _campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos%29

So how long will it take Don The Con's Dept of Labor to screw 4M workers, exactly the kind of low-wage, low-education people that voted to dump Trash in the WH.

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Having screwed over private sector employees for 40 years, VRWC/BigCorp's Useful Idiot Trash intends to pull govt employees, the ones he doesn't fire, down to private sector level.

Trump has a plan for government workers. They’re not going to like it.

President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are drawing up plans to take on the government bureaucracy they have long railed against, by eroding job protections and grinding down benefits that federal workers have received for a generation.

Hiring freezes, an end to automatic raises, a green light to fire poor performers, a ban on union business on the government’s dime and less generous pensions — these are the contours of the blueprint emerging under Republican control of Washington in January.

These changes were once unthinkable to federal employees, their unions and their supporters in Congress. But Trump’s election as an outsider promising to shake up a system he told voters is awash in “waste, fraud and abuse” has conservatives optimistic that they could do now what Republicans have been unable to do in the 133 years since the modern civil service was created.

“You have the country moving to the right and being much more anti-Washington than it was,”

(hey, Noot, Hillary won the popular vote by 2m)

“We’re going to have to get the country to understand how big the problem is, the human costs of it and why it’s absolutely essential to reform,” said Gingrich

The project aligns with Bannon’s long-stated warnings about the corrupting influence of government and a capital city rampant with “crony capitalism.”

Breitbart headlines also provide a possible insight into his views, with federal employees described as overpaid, too numerous and a “privileged class.”

Chaffetz said he plans to push through wholesale changes to the generous retirement benefits that federal workers receive, by shifting to a market-driven, 401(k)-style plan for new employees.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/11/21/trump-republicans-plan-to-target-government-workers-benefits-and-job-security/?wpisrc=nl_most-draw7&wpmm=1

VRWC ideology, strategy: weaken, up govt at all levels, then privatize so taxpayers' $Ts get distributed upward to the capitalists who charge taxpayers more and deliver the tiest possible services.

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A jazzed House GOP with big ideas suddenly plans to cut down on three-day weekends next session

First on the chopping block: President Obama's overtime rule requiring time-and-a-half payment for employees working more than 40 hours per week but making less than about $47,000 per year.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/21/1602640/-A-jazzed-House-GOP-with-big-ideas-suddenly-plans-to-cut-down-on-3-day-weekends-next-session?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_ campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos%29

there ya go, Trash voters, Repugs ing your overtime before you even got any!

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Judge blocks Obama rule extending overtime pay to 4.2 million U.S. workers

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked an Obama administration rule to extend mandatory overtime pay to more than 4 million salaried workers from taking effect, imperiling one of the outgoing president's signature achievements for boosting wages.

U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant, in Sherman, Texas, agreed with 21 states and a coalition of business groups, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, that the rule is unlawful and granted their motion for a nationwide injunction.

The rule, issued by the Labor Department, was to take effect Dec. 1 and would have doubled to $47,500 the maximum salary a worker can earn and still be eligible for mandatory overtime pay. The new threshold would have been the first significant change in four decades.

The states and business groups claimed in lawsuits filed in September, which were later consolidated, that the drastic increase in the salary threshold was arbitrary.

On Tuesday, Mazzant, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, ruled that the federal law governing overtime does not allow the Labor Department to decide which workers are eligible based on salary levels alone.

The Fair Labor Standards Act says that employees can be exempt from overtime if they perform executive, administrative or professional duties, but the rule “creates essentially a de facto salary-only test,” Mazzant wrote in the 20-page ruling.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...e=domesticNews

So the BigCorp War on Employees wins a huge battle. Employees are ed and un able.

Remember, it was Repugs who screwed Ms of workers by saying they couldn't get overtime.

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I see these kinds of archive threads and think the OP must be a recluse in a wheel chair with some level of autism. That's not even ad hom. It's a fact.