How is it that a third world country Ike mine pays overtime pay to all employees who work beyond the standard 8 hour work day. 25% of the hourly rate is added to the hours of overtime, plus a night differential rate if you work past 11 pm. +30% if you have to do work during a holiday.
Not being paid for overtime work is very slavery to me.
The reasoning of the judge is because the companies will have to pay billions in OT pay. Fuck them.
What country? Do you offer political asylum to people fleeing dictatorial regimes?
Well we currently have the son of the former dictator as a president so there’s that.
Does he seem like he’s going to do better than his dad?
Sounds like the Philippines.
I assumed it was, but since the poster didn’t mention it, I figured they might have their reasons to be vague.
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We do get overtime pay, this rule was for a very specific segment of workers who were exempt. Being salaried and making under a certain amount. Hourly employees get time and a half for every hour past 40 in a week, federally.
I hope everyone joined whatever gains unions had the last four years
B-b-b-but Democrats aren’t aligned with the working class!
If the US is not a third-world country, then why do they do so many third-world country things?
A bit more of a de-developing country
And no, I don’t have a stutter
Had a bit of an Elmer Fudd flashback 😂
Obviously a little late for this administration, but could the next liberal admin try beating them to the punch on this? Are there no liberal friendly judicial districts? Have one of those file a weak lawsuit to uphold the law. Then that could at least be referenced when they attack in a red area.
The problem is there aren’t enough actual liberals left in the DNC. The majority of the DNC is more than happy to screw over workers to the benefit of corporations. What resistance they provide is mostly performative, as their real priorities are dictated by what the large corporate donors are paying for.
Screwing over workers to the benefit of Corporations is what Liberals are for. You mean there’s no leftist left in the DNC.
The problem is SCOTUS. Anything reaching them is going to come down on the Republican side.
You’re assuming there will be elections again
It’s always texas, it’s never not texas, is texas just trying to become mississipi? Because it’s very quickly headed there.
I wish we could just kick Texas out at this point.
it’s going back to trump’s threshold too. if you were enjoying OT with a 37K salary, congratulations, you’re exempt now
Best get used to it. It’s going to be tough for a while.
Invest in tire companies because managers are going to be buying a lot of them.
Of course protecting workers who needs that. /s
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Haha. Sucks to be the Texas working class. Won’t get paid for overtime, wives dying from childbirth, lack of good health care, poor education.
Ya voted, la la la la la 🧏
this is a federal court in Texas, that means it’s being blocked nationally.
This is something I really don’t get in the US. How is it that a judge in one state/area/circuit whatever can make a decision that affects the entire nation? Having a bunch of courts spread around the place that people can cherry pick from to get the result they want seems so arbitrary.
so what’s getting shot down are executive orders. unilateral decisions made by the President. they aren’t very strong and can basically be overturned by any federal judge. in the past we all pretended they judges were not partisan and that the judiciary was somehow above politics. recently there has been a strong reversal on that stance from our political right. in the past it was unusual for judges to overturn executive orders without good reason. right now it’s expected that this court specifically week more or less try to overturn anything Biden tries to do.
originally the executive order was meant to be used sparingly and have very little power. that has changed greatly over a long time, but lately they’ve mostly been getting used to get past deadlock in the house and Senate. these days we more or less can’t pass any laws because the Republican party always has at least enough control to block one part of the process and had taken a stance of “block everything the Democrats do to make them look bad until we have unilateral control and can do what we want”. they just finished that plan.
so lately legislation that can’t get past the deadlock created by bad actors in our checks and balances system. the balance against that which we had settled on in the past was executive orders. lately the thing that has changed is that Republicans stopped pretending the judiciary was sacred and started using it as another arm of obstruction. in the past it was understood that such a gross lack of decorum and breaking of political mores would cost a political their career. trump proved that wrong so now they can blatantly use partisan judges to obstruct anything worthwhile that might have snuck through.
Just by federal law, not state law. Of course it will be a race to the bottom for certain states to
attracttake bribes from businesses.Well, then It sucks everywherre woooooo
Get what they vote for!
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Leopards are hilarious, and I just have no more sympathy left in me. I’m exhausted. I hope they all get to reap what they sow.
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Yes yes I get it.
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For salaried workers.
Salary workers almost never get paid overtime and generally make more “per hour” than the standard hourly wage already anyway. Also, you literally cannot be forced to work more than 40 hrs a week when salaried. This is also the terms that are agreed to by both parties (usually by contract) before employment begins. Kind sounds to me like if you want to be a salaried employee AND make overtime, that you should negotiate that before beginning employment.
I’m not getting the argument here.
You definitely can be fired for not working more than 40 hours in any state with at-will employment. Or rather, you can be fired for no reason at all, and they don’t need to say it was because of the hours.
