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The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was part of the New Deal. When Pres. Obama attempted to raise the minimum salary overtime eligibility level to 47K, it was the Fair Labor Standards Act that was being changed by executive order.
There are two Supreme court cases that are being decided during this Supreme Court cycle that are relevant to your question. The first is a case which was decided on Monday and overrules the National Labor Relations Act of 1935. The second court case will decide whether non union members must pay union fees when they are indirect beneficiaries of collective bargaining. The National Labor Relations Act is sited as Janus v. AFSCME.
The Republican speaker of the House has indicated the intention of restructuring Social Security. This restructuring that the Republicans are discussing would most likely reduce benefits and reduce the 6.2% requirement that corporations must match per employee. This would change the Social Security Act of 1935.
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
National Labor Relations Act of 1935
Social Security Act of 1935
............... all established as part of the New Deal
As you can see the Republican party currently has a political trifecta and is working hard to demolish laws that were designed to make life and employment in the United States tolerable.
Just thought there had to be a balanced response to your claims.
In 2009, even Obama emphasized the need to reform these entitlement programs, saying we had “kicked this can down the road,” further noting that “we are now at the end of the road” and “not in a position to kick it any further." (Spoiler alert: If a tomato can football hall of fame existed, Obama would hold the record for longest field goal.)
For instance, as Bloomberg’s Ramesh Ponnuru has suggested, simply tying Social Security benefit increases to prices rather than wages would reduce the deficit in the program by 94% over the next 75 years. Even reducing benefits for the top 40% of wealthy Americans and increasing payouts for the lowest 30% of recipients could both make the program more solvent and pass political muster. (Similarly, in Ryan’s previous plans to save Medicare, he means-tested benefits: Those with higher incomes would be asked to pay more for coverage, while the poor would receive more aid.)
You've designated me as a professional meaning that if I make more than $23,661 I'm not eligible for overtime pay. Back when the Fair Labor Standards Act was written in 1938 upper level corporate executives were making $23,660 or more. Lou Gehrig was making $30K and Jo DiMaggio was making $25K.
In 2016 President Obama signed an executive order raising the overtime eligibility floor to $47K. What this means is that if you made less than $47K you could not be gyped out of overtime pay as enacted by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. What FLSA gives you is time and a half for all hours worked in excess of 40 hours a week. In December of 2016 a Republican judge struck the executive order down offering a lame reason why.
The time has come to update FLSA to consider inflation. Call your Senators and Representatives at the federal and state levels and ask them to make the salary floor $47K when considering overtime eligibility.
It's time for the Democrats to stop playing dead which they seem to be good at.
The hyperinflation of the nineteen eighties has made the $23,660 floor a sad joke. Right now the joke is on you.
Questions?
The $23,660 annual FLSA Exempt wage wasn't set at that level in 1938, nor was it that high in the 1980s. It was raised to that level in 2004, during the Bush administration. FLSA Exempt salary levels have been increased a few times between 1938 and 2004.
In 1938, the FLSA Exempt wage base was set at $30/week ($1,560/annual) for executives and administrators, and in 1940, a wage base of $50/week ($2,600/annual) was set for professionals.
You are completely missing my point. What I'm saying here is that FLSA has included an exempt from overtime provision that was once meant for well paid executives, not the rank and file.
FLSA needs updating to reflect its original intent.
Well, take a deep breath, stamp your feet, and wait for that to happen.
I would like to see the present rate raised gradually, at the average COL factor plus 1-2%, until it is at a more reasonable rate.
But I am happy Obama's EO was averted, as to double it would create too much unemployment via businesses who could not absorb that drastic a cost increase.
Career changers get locked out of jobs because their previous experience is not counted and thus they're treated as newbies.
People do it everyday. I did it in my mid 40s. Identify the job you want, see what skills, education, requirements are needed and get those. Simple equation that takes a bit of time and finesse to pull off.
Every career change doesn't have to mean starting over as a newbie. Lateral your way over to what you want.
How to get around the catch-22 of no job, no experience?
Career changers have their previous experience not counted and are treated as if they have zero experience.
Not necessarily, but must learn how to sell transferrable skill sets.
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