If the US is not a third-world country, then why do they do so many third-world country things?
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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.
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.
What country? Do you offer political asylum to people fleeing dictatorial regimes?
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.
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?
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How? Your government is probably not as captured.
It's been the law for 50 years.
That can change. Don't let it.
B-b-b-but Democrats aren't aligned with the working class!
I mean this would only have applied to salaried employees earning $20/hr or less which I can't even imagine what type of field that covers since most hourly jobs earn more than that these days.
This is akin to the "pardoning marijuana possession convictions" thing where it didn't apply to a single person in federal custody and only benefitted 3,000 people (with past convictions) in the entire nation.
This is basically virtue signaling and/or table scraps for us peasants.
In January, it was going to jump to a minimum salary of 59k to be exempt.
And a judge even blocked that. What do we think would happen to more substantial changes?
We'll probably never know because it would require them to actually make a substantial change first.
Try employing logic.
I'd much rather they fight some Texas federal judge over something meaningful than squander the political capital on something that benefits a tiny niche of the country and gets blocked anyway.
Just about the only meaningful thing we've seen over the last three Democratic presidential terms was the ACA and they decided to model that after a Republican healthcare plan rather than giving us the logical choice of single-payer in order to appease Republicans who voted against it anyway.
But you don't actually know how many people this would have applied to... you just assume, right?
Edit: It's right in the article: "The rule would have extended to approximately four million American workers, guaranteeing them overtime pay."
If only this logic actually applied. Maybe they wouldn't make anti-trans laws in that shithole state?
Not sure why you would expect the federal government to be able to do anything with state charges.
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I hope everyone joined whatever gains unions had the last four years
it's going back to trump's threshold too. if you were enjoying OT with a 37K salary, congratulations, you're exempt now
Imagine being a salaried employee and only earning $16.80 per hour, assuming 40 hours a week. I wonder what type of work this even covers as that's slightly above minimum wage here, and it requires you to work all those extra hours for free.
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 SCOTUS. Anything reaching them is going to come down on the Republican side.
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.
No, the problem is there are too many liberals in the party and not enough leftists. Liberals love them some anti-worker pro-corporate welfare and other right-wing policies that only benefit the rich.
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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.
People file their cases in this district specifically because it has a bunch of conservative friendly judges.
Florida man and Texas Judge are the dynamic duo we didn't really need.
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