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| Topic | Republicans pass bill to allow companies to not have to pay employees overtime |
| Smarkil 05/03/17 1:08:53 PM #37: | Doctor Foxx posted... But that screws Zang out of what would have been overtime pay of time and a half. Instead he has to bank hours and have them paid out at the regular rate at a later date. The employee loses if the employer takes the option away and can't actually offer the time off. Again, it's just an option. If I had already hit my PTO accrual cap and they asked me to work overtime I'd just say "Hey, I'm already at my cap can I just get overtime?". I know people like to think of businesses as these evil things, but the majority of employers in the US are considered small businesses. Sure, you might get have a hard time negotiating around this shit at Walmart or something, but those giant businesses typically have no-time off policies anyway. And is it really 'screwing' someone out of something when it's something they shouldn't expect to have anyway? Overtime is exactly that - working more than the average amount you should expect to be working. Zang is the exception in that he essentially gets to choose the amount of overtime he gets. Most people have rare instances of it. Link for the average amount of overtime by industry. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t18.htm --- I find myself identifying strongly with Hitler - Blighboy ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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