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As I recall when I interviewed for a salaried job it was MY OPTION to take the job or NOT, so your "claim" of, "but plenty of employers do it purposely to screw people out of earning overtime for working long hours is B.S.
NOBODY is FORCED to take a salaried job.
Talk about BS, you know good and well that people "take" jobs in order to eat, hunger, mortgage payments, car payments, trying to get to retirement, ALL these things constitute a "force"...........
Sometimes when a project or job needs to be complete, you work extra to get it done... just because you want to do a good job. Not everyone is being exploited. Some work extra because they want.
I think some of you are also neglecting how expensive it is to be full time employees. The cost has increased and it has nothing to do with employee salaries. The owner/stakeholders are just supposed to eat it every time some wants something.
You can't have a one size fits all policy.
Or make the increase more gradual... this is over double the old threshold.
Look... Everyone wants more money. We (collectively as a country) are not selling and making products like we did in the past. Almost half the country is not working. You can't have everything. If you want people to have more money, get the government out of the way, reduce regulations to make it favorable to do business and manufacture products. You can't legislate more money over the long term. It will only make things worse.
As I recall when I interviewed for a salaried job it was MY OPTION to take the job or NOT, so your "claim" of, "but plenty of employers do it purposely to screw people out of earning overtime for working long hours is B.S.
NOBODY is FORCED to take a salaried job.
Of course it's at your discretion to take a job or not, but you cannot give away your rights. That's why regulatory agencies like the DOL exist in the first place.
And the statement I made was not merely a claim I pulled out of nowhere. There have been multiple class action lawsuits against companies such as Taco Bell and Waffle House due to their misclassifying staff as exempt as opposed to nonexempt to avoid paying overtime. So, yes, a lot of companies do it, but as you point out earlier in the thread, a lot of companies don't.
Last edited by Texas Ag 93; 07-20-2016 at 09:40 PM..
The law is still a very weak law. Massive wage theft is still rampant. There should be no threshold. Every worker should get overtime pay except in very, very rare circumstances.
Sure it will. Management will have to make a choice between paying higher compensation, or cutting staff and shrinking the business.
Both choices will simply generate lower returns for the shareholders.
It's called competition, and not just workers are forced into it unwillingly. The truth of free market business is that it is supposed to be brutal and cutthroat, if you can hire the best and pay them more you can have a reasonable expectation of getting your fair return on labor, and the "other guy" will definitely suffer.
Lower returns for the shareholders: Yes, not all businesses can manage well enough to have a loyal base of investor support, but, the ones that are successful seem to be the best payer, plus offering substantial benefits as a magnet for the best. it's when business gets together with the express purpose of sticking it to the worker, whether it be in a court of law or when they have their "own little union meetings" where things go bad for the collective of workers. We've got some winners but they are fewer and wealthier every year.
Still no explanation about why it's a problem for him to switch these guys to hourly?
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