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So Much for Checks and Balances
Aug. 24th, 2004 01:26 pmLatest column from Molly Ivins http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/national/ivins/story/10491312p-11410619c.html
reveals that although the Senate voted twice to stop the change, and the House of Representatives won't bring it to the floor, Bush's Department of Labor just issued on their own hundreds of pages worth of new regulations on who gets overtime pay.
To summarize (although you really should read the whole column), if you make between $23,660 and $100,000, you're out of luck. They've also redefined "salaried" so it can refer to an hourly wage employee. And defined management in such a way that just a change in job title could mean losing the ability to collect overtime. And listed several categories of jobs (chefs, cooks, sous chefs, computer workers, nursery school teachers, many nurses, funeral directors and embalmers, "team leaders," some cops, etc.
Every time I think these scumbags have sunk to new lows, they manage to outdo themselves.
reveals that although the Senate voted twice to stop the change, and the House of Representatives won't bring it to the floor, Bush's Department of Labor just issued on their own hundreds of pages worth of new regulations on who gets overtime pay.
To summarize (although you really should read the whole column), if you make between $23,660 and $100,000, you're out of luck. They've also redefined "salaried" so it can refer to an hourly wage employee. And defined management in such a way that just a change in job title could mean losing the ability to collect overtime. And listed several categories of jobs (chefs, cooks, sous chefs, computer workers, nursery school teachers, many nurses, funeral directors and embalmers, "team leaders," some cops, etc.
Every time I think these scumbags have sunk to new lows, they manage to outdo themselves.
