This is an old story that deserves to be brought up now that the rules are going into effect.
Be aware that Eugene Scalia(son of Antonin) was appointed Solicitor of the Department of
Labor By bush as one of his first appointments after being placed in office.

www.courier-journal.com/business/news2004/01/06/biz-6B-overtime06-4513.html


WASHINGTON — The Labor Department is giving employers tips on how to avoid paying overtime to some of the 1.3 million low-income workers who would become eligible under new rules expected to be finalized early this year.

The department's advice comes even as it touts the rules by saying workers will get $895million in increased wages.

Among the options for employers: Cut workers' hourly wages so that regular and overtime pay equal the original salary, or raise salaries to the new $22,100 annual threshold, making them ineligible.

Under the old rules, an employee could make as little as $155 a week and still be classified as a "professional" or "white-collar" employee, and thus exempt from overtime. The new rules would increase that annual pay rate to $22,100 from $8,060.

The department says it is merely listing well-known choices available to employers now or under the new rules. "We're not saying anybody should do any of this," department spokesman Ed Frank said.

What are the new overtime rules?  I have heard stories about these new rules, but no one had actually said what they are...just that they could affect people adversly or positively depending on the job.

That's why we gotta throw da bums out!!!

As the folks back home say, "What do you expect from a pig but a grunt?"

Leave these bastids in charge long enough, they'll bring back slavery!
>:(

What are the new overtime rules?  I have heard stories about these new rules, but no one had actually said what they are...just that they could affect people adversly or positively depending on the job.


http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/whd/fairpay/main.htm

Thanks, MooRocca. :)

What are the new overtime rules?  I have heard stories about these new rules, but no one had actually said what they are...just that they could affect people adversly or positively depending on the job.


Over 500 pages of new rules,  and if you think they will be friendly to working people, you need to sak why business organizations from the American Manufacturing Association to the US Chamber of Commerce are supporting them.