Friday, November 22, 2024

A Trump Judge Just Nixed Overtime Pay for Millions

You probably missed it, because it created barely a ripple in the media, but last Friday, a federal judge appointed by Donald Trump struck down one of President Biden's most pro-worker policies: his effort to ensure that far more Americans benefit from overtime pay.

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First drop in the bucket.

Big ol' bucket.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2024-11-21 06:29 PM

... You probably missed it, because it created barely a ripple in the media, but last Friday, a federal judge appointed by Donald Trump struck down one of President Biden's most pro-worker policies: his effort to ensure that far more Americans benefit from overtime pay. ...

Yeah, I remember the discussions at the time Pres Biden promoted that policy, i.e., that low-income, but salaried, workers should receive overtime pay.

imo, as I noted at the time, that was a blatant grab by corporate America to eliminate overtime ay.

Pres Biden saw through what the corporations seemed to be doing, and came down on the side of workers.


Now a Judge appointed by Pres-elect Trump strikes Pres Bden's policy down?


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-21 08:16 PM

Now a Judge appointed by Pres-elect Trump strikes Pres Bden's policy down?

Over the next six months every single policy implemented either by Biden or Obama is going to be reversed. That's pretty much a given.

Every one of the hundreds of thousands of government employees not totally loyal to Lewzer is going to be replaced by people who are. That's pretty much a given too.

It's going to be a hoot. Lewzer/MAGA gets to prove how brilliant their plans are, and how great, and white, things are going to be. The only drawback will be time.

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." ~ (usually and likely falsely attributed to) Winston Churchill

#3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-11-21 08:33 PM

I have pointed this case out numerous times.

Hey magat scum, your cult leader just took money out of your pocket.

How does it feel?

I point and laugh at you.

You will NOT hear any magat scum around this thread, that's fer sure fer sure

#4 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-11-21 08:36 PM

Who appointed this guy?

Oh. That explains it.

#5 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-11-22 12:02 PM

$35K is too low.

#6 | Posted by eberly at 2024-11-22 12:36 PM

But this is also why we have such a low federal minimum wage. States like Mississippi couldn't swallow $20 like Seattle can.

#7 | Posted by eberly at 2024-11-22 12:44 PM

States like Mississippi could afford the higher minimum wage if the good old boy network didn't suck up all the profits. In states like Mississippi you have the white upper class who have always lived a priveleged life styly by exploiting the poor and they wil continue to do so but the "poor" will start looking whiter as the black people escape to more decent states and Trump deports the brown people. Someone has to be at the bottom of the totem pole and it will probably ne the ignorant----------- who voted for Republicans over and over brcause they felt that the more educated folks looked down their noses at them. in truth, they did but, also in truth, they will continue to do so.

#8 | Posted by danni at 2024-11-23 05:54 AM

Welllll... that ought to go over well...

I bet they are hoping to make people desperate to keep their jobs too. Yeah... nothing like preventing them from getting that second job to make ends meet.

#9 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-11-23 06:07 AM

Hey, if we deport millions kof brown people just think of all the employment opportunities that will open up for white guys! Picking crops is good honest bacbreaking work that lazy white fat guys are just waiting for their chance to do. John McCain said most white Americans wouldn't do those jobs even for $50 per hour but worse; what if the crops didn't get picked/ So let's deport all the crop pivkers, roofers, road builders, maids, gardeners, etc. Let's judt pretend we don't need them; they're all rapists and murderers and that America will be crimr free because white, native born Aericans don't break the law. I honestly want to know what Trump voters think the result will be from deporting the people who do the work white --------- are tpp good to do?

#10 | Posted by danni at 2024-11-23 08:10 AM

Picking crops is good honest bacbreaking work that lazy white fat guys are just waiting for their chance to do.

#10 | Posted by danni at 2024-11-23 08:10 AM | FLAG WOW!

What a great idea... lazy fat white guys working... maybe even lose some weight and become effable for the first time in their incel lives.

It's a win win... lazy fat white guys busting their nuggets for low wages... welcome back unions... I say go for it.

#11 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-11-23 10:30 AM

"These are people who make more than $35,000 but less than $58,000 per year, but don't currently qualify for overtime; to oversimplify, bosses have reclassified many of these workers as managers, exempting them from federal overtime protections"

First of all, to be an exempt/salaried employee, you have to sign the agreement to exempt yourself from the hourly labor laws. "Bosses" can't just reclassify and stop paying overtime. Secondly, There's usually a trade off for those who work overtime without charging 1.5 X pay per hours. Most of the time it comes in the form of bonuses depending on how successful the company is.

This article won't bother people who see the glass as half full.

#12 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-11-24 12:38 PM

#12

Never owned a glass... drinks his Trump-Aide from a Dixie cup.

#13 | Posted by Corky at 2024-11-24 01:17 PM

More like a sippy cup.

#14 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-11-24 01:46 PM

"how great, and white, things are going to be."

"Hey magat scum, [...] I point and laugh at you."

"lazy white fat guys"

"incel"

Thanks for reminding everyone why you guys can't win elections any time your opponents haven't already screwed up the economy.

#15 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-11-24 05:27 PM

"States like Mississippi could afford the higher minimum wage if the good old boy network didn't suck up all the profits."

It's all relative. Every state could afford higher minimum wages if investors didn't suck up all the profits. How do you address that without disincentivizing investments? Some states are always going to be better or worse off than others.

One thing I've learned in my travels is that every state/country and every system has corruption. They just do it in different ways. I know that both blue states and red states like to think they're morally superior to other, but in reality, it isn't true.

#16 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-11-24 05:36 PM

"First of all, to be an exempt/salaried employee, you have to sign the agreement to exempt yourself from the hourly labor laws."

True, but HR departments regularly try to hoodwink employees to maximize their leverage to use and abuse them. If the government doesn't set some reasonable parameters, more people are likely to turn to the union thugs, at best, or "go postal" at worst, when they're mistreated.

#17 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-11-24 05:58 PM

"...a kinder gentler machine gun hand."

-Neil Young

#18 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-11-24 06:42 PM

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