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I agree as well. Salaried shouldn't mean slavery. My first salaried job, the boss told me "you work 7 days this week and after a month you can start to take a full day off if your store is doing better." It was nothing to put in 80+ hours per week in my industry. I left and went into sales when I figured out the dishwasher was making more per hour than I was.
In my case in South Carolina, any hourly, non salaried worker working over 40 hours a week has to be paid overtime.
I ended up getting a check two years later for almost $10,000.
The weird thing about this is that some odd arm of the Federal Government oversees this not the individual state. I want to say it was the Secret Service?
The legality (or not) of Comp time is dependent on several factors, including whether or not the employer is public or private, and any additional State laws that may exist.
it sounds nice... then you realize that if employers don't want to pay overtime, they can just hire 2 "half time" people at no benefits to replace one full time person who works over time
but it'll be somewhat fun to watch, if they cut back too many full time people and just hire extra workers, that might put them over the employee limit exemption on providing healthcare
i could see people using more "contracting" companies though, hire 3rd party for non-essential work to get around over time and healthcare regulations
If we didn't have to pay people at all everybody would have jobs. I guess America just hates jobs.
The real problem is the elitists who dream up laws like this in the first place. None of them have ever run a business or had to meet a payroll in their lives and are utterly clueless.
Actually, maybe they know something....when everyone plays by the same rules and those rules change, the market tends to adapt to them. Your competitors will have the same costs you do. If you need to raise prices 5%, they probably will too.
Of course it's not that simple. But on average it'll work out that way.
The real problem is the elitists who dream up laws like this in the first place. None of them have ever run a business or had to meet a payroll in their lives and are utterly clueless.
If the *only* way you can figure out to turn a profit is by working your employees overtime without compensation, then you aren't much of a businessman.
I think this legislation will cover "managers" in certain places like 7-11, fast food, theaters. Just the other day a 7-11 manager told me that this is how they operate, the employees are paid minimum, but they make the managers work tons of overtime, simply because the owner can get away with it. That's where I agree with the law. Someone takes a manager job, takes responsibility, wants to get ahead in life, but then is exploited massively.
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