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[On November 22, U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant of Texas] halted an Obama administration rule that would have expanded overtime pay for millions of workers, a decision that was slammed by employees' rights advocates.
The U.S. Department of Labor rule, which was set to go into effect on December 1, would have made overtime pay available to full-time salaried employees making up to $47,476 a year. It was expected to touch every nearly every sector [1] in the U.S. economy. The threshold for overtime pay was previously set at $23,660, and had been updated once in 40 years--meaning any full-time employees who earned more than $23,600 were not eligible for time-and-a-half when they worked more than 40 hours a week.
[...] Workers' rights advocates reacted with dismay and outrage. David Levine, CEO and co-founder of the American Sustainable Business Council, mourned the ruling, saying the opponents were "operating from short-sighted, out-moded thinking".
"The employees who will be hurt the most and the economies that will suffer the most are in the American heartland, where wages are already low", Levine said. "When employers pay a fair wage, they benefit from more productive, loyal, and motivated employees. That's good for a business' bottom line and for growing the middle class that our nation's economy depends on. High road businesses understand that better compensation helps build a better work culture."
[...] Christine Owens, executive director of the National Employment Law Project (NELP), noted [2] that the rule would have impacted up to 12.5 million workers, citing research by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
"The business trade associations and Republican-led states that filed the litigation in Texas opposing the rules have won today, but will not ultimately prevail in their attempt to take away a long-overdue pay raise for America's workers", she said. "Unfortunately, for the time being, workers will continue to work longer hours for less pay thanks to this obstructionist litigation."
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(Score: 3, Funny) by bradley13 on Monday November 28 2016, @01:23PM
Meant to to add this:
Funny how, in one breath, it's "flyover country". Then the elite wants something, and it's suddently "the American Heartland".
/snark
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Thexalon on Monday November 28 2016, @03:57PM
I know what the cure for that problem would be, and I try to encourage others to do it: Stop flying!
Seriously, if you travel cross-country on the ground, all of a sudden those small towns that you've never heard of become landmarks. You can see why somebody might like living in rural Kansas or Colorado or Utah. You can also see the problems many of those places have. And you'll get a sense of how huge many of those places really are. From what I can tell, there is a class of people that rarely travels on the ground and is flying from city to city with no conception of what's in between.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @09:37PM
I can practically see Kansas from my golden tower in NYC.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday November 28 2016, @10:43PM
Take a page from Walkin' Lawton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawton_Chiles [wikipedia.org]
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