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If it's made fair, comp time should at least be an option, if you work 60 hours in a week, time off to be fair would be 30 hours. Of course once that was explained to the company I work for, they quit offering comp time.
Good point. We don't know what's going on in and around this .......I haven't looked into it...but I suspect the concern is it is giving more power to employers......and from the excerpts I've read that seems to me to be the thing.
Well when I work overtime, I get taxed. Working more than twenty hours per week is basically working for free. I'd much rather have time off - I won't be taxed and time IMO is more important than money.
I'd rather have the time off. I hate when employers insist on "mandatory overtime", usually at the last second.
I'd be glad to get rid of that garbage.
Of course, CNN, Phauxcahontas, nor many crying about this seem to have missed this wording:
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The Administration supports H.R. 1180, the Working Families Flexibility Act of 2017. H.R. 1180 would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to allow private-sector employers to give their employees the choice to receive paid time off instead of cash payments for each hour of time for which overtime compensation would otherwise be required. The bill would extend to private-sector workers a choice that public-sector employees have long enjoyed.
Almost no I knew in the many years I worked ever got time and a half or even paid time off. You were on salary period and that was your compensation even if you worked over 40 hours a week. Time and a half was almost exclusively a benefit that Union workers received by contract with their employers. The majority of American workers never worked for a Union and worked as many hours as their employer ordered.
Again, many working class people depend on overtime pay. We're looking at a potential situation where employers can make a worker stay an hour past the end of their shift for an entire week, and compensate them by having them come in at 9:30, instead of nine and tacking an extra half hour on to their lunches.
" In addition, H.R. 1180 contains critical protections to ensure employees can continueto choose overtime pay and to prohibit employers from coercing their employees to accept compensatory time instead of overtime pay."
Almost no I knew in the many years I worked ever got time and a half or even paid time off. You were on salary period and that was your compensation even if you worked over 40 hours a week. Time and a half was almost exclusively a benefit that Union workers received by contract with their employers. The majority of American workers never worked for a Union and worked as many hours as their employer ordered.
It depends, blue collar workers are usually hourly with time and a half after 40, or 8 hours for a day depending on who you work for.
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