This is great news. Activists have been calling for this for a while, and this will be a huge help to many working people: President Barack Obama is preparing to do what the U.S. economic recovery has been slow to accomplish: raise the wages of millions of Americans. His administration is drafting new rules on who…
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Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.
fancypants April 23rd, 2015 at 19:30
Hanauer, co-founder of Second Avenue Partners, argues that the erosion of legal protections for overtime pay has been a key contributor to a decades-long transfer of income from workers to corporations.
“It’s this super-corrosive feedback loop,” Hanauer said. “If I can’t get you to work 60 hours a week, I get somebody else to work 60 hours a week and I soften the labor market. The more I soften the labor market, the more leverage I have over you.”
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unfortunately our gov has managed to farm out work to other countries and it wouldn’t surprise me if the clowns [ above ] was the MC who made that happen
Budda April 23rd, 2015 at 21:37
True. They hire two people at $40K/yr. and work both 60 plus hours a week. No need to hire the third person. ( 60hrs. + 60 hrs. = 120hrs. or three 40 hr. work weeks)
Dwendt44 April 24th, 2015 at 18:17
OR expect the two to do 60 hours work in 40.
They save the benefit costs and other costs of a third person.
fancypants April 24th, 2015 at 19:56
@60 hrs a week They deserve all the rotten straight pay coming to them
that’s all we need is another boss laughing all the way to the bank
rg9rts April 24th, 2015 at 10:23
Then pull the story till you can properly present it