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Offline Gunslinger

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« on: August 23, 2004, 09:40:10 PM »
What's with the new laws?  My understanding is that it is eliminating overtime requirements for people who make over 100k a year and requiring it for those making 26K and up or something.

IS BUSH TAKING AWAY MY OVERTIME??????????

JK AD military work 10 hour days 6 to 7 days a week and our pay is the same as the pay chart says it is.

Anyone elses thaughts?  I havnt seen too much news coverage or contraversy over this other than Edwards w/ a microphone trying to scare people.

Offline Lizking

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« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2004, 09:44:18 PM »
From what I have seen, it will give a whole bunch of people who need it a raise, and hurt some people that are making pretty good money.  Since exemption is a negoiated perk, I don't think many people will be getting a pay cut.

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« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2004, 11:54:27 PM »
it is based on salaried employee's IIRC. hourly employees wont be effected, but if you make 6 figures a year what do you care?


oh wait, the republicans are moving in on the dem's territory of the non-rich huh? cause those dems are all over helping the lower middle class
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Offline B17Skull12

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« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2004, 11:57:56 PM »
WTF?!?! i though this is what Dem's were suposed to do?
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« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2004, 12:04:55 AM »
I'm positive it doesn't effect you JB73. I'm equally confident you don't understand it.

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« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2004, 12:06:54 AM »
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I'm positive it doesn't effect you JB73. I'm equally confident you don't understand it.
yes, it does not effect me.

and yes in understand it. im too lazy to type it all out here, im going to bed.
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« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2004, 12:08:13 AM »
"IS BUSH TAKING AWAY MY OVERTIME??????????"

Lol, sleep tight.

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« Reply #7 on: August 24, 2004, 09:32:10 AM »
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Originally posted by Creamo
"IS BUSH TAKING AWAY MY OVERTIME??????????"

Lol, sleep tight.
look at who posted something before randomly grabbing text and assigning it to someone.
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« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2004, 09:40:11 AM »
Oh, sorry, didn't mean to do that.


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« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2004, 09:50:12 AM »
Creamo makes another friend...:lol

Look, Bush is doing exactly what the left wants to do, lessen the gap between rich and poor! :rofl

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« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2004, 10:19:34 AM »
Anyone have a link to the verbage of the new law?

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« Reply #11 on: August 24, 2004, 10:21:06 AM »
Wiat, I'm confused... Isn't overtime still settled via sudden death?

God I hope they don't turn to that PC "each team gets a chance to score"

crap... oh... what?...

Never mind.

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« Reply #12 on: August 24, 2004, 10:37:26 AM »
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Anyone have a link to the verbage of the new law?

IKON


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

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« Reply #13 on: August 24, 2004, 10:45:08 AM »
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Edwards blasts new OT rules
 
In Saturday radio address, VP candidate says measure curtails pay at a time workers need it.
August 23, 2004: 1:20 PM EDT
 
ATLANTA (CNN) - Calling to mind his days unloading tractor trailers during the summer, Sen. John Edwards blasted the Bush White House Saturday for endorsing a law that curtails overtime pay for some U.S. workers.

"Why would anyone want to take overtime pay away from as many as six million Americans at a time when they need that money the most?" Edwards asked during the weekly Democratic radio address.

The law, slated to go into effect Monday, redefines guidelines by which employers are required to pay overtime to some U.S. workers.

"Working Americans have to tighten their belts in this economy, and on Monday that belt's about to get a whole lot tighter when this new overtime law starts working," the North Carolina Democrat said.

Edwards listed a wide range of professions that could be affected by the law including computer programmers, line cooks and police sergeants.

"And if you are a nursery school teacher, preparing your classroom for another school year, don't make any number charts that go over forty because anything higher than that just doesn't count in this administration," Edwards said referencing the standard 40-hour work week.

Edwards vowed that, if elected, he and his running mate John Kerry would not deny workers overtime pay.

"We need a president who'll work overtime for you
 


Yup it really looks like Bush is taking away my overtime!!!!

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Welcome to the FairPay Web site. It's designed to help you understand the Department's new FairPay rules that strengthen overtime protections.

Under the new FairPay rules, workers earning less than $23,660 per year — or $455 per week — are guaranteed overtime protection. This will strengthen overtime rights for 6.7 million American workers, including 1.3 million low-wage workers who were denied overtime under the old rules.

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« Reply #14 on: August 24, 2004, 10:45:38 AM »
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http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/whd/fairpay/main.htm


TY sir!

IKON