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President Bush's Attack
On Overtime Pay Law
Recent developments in
overtime law threaten the rights to overtime pay for
millions of Americans. The Department of Labor proposed new
regulations on March 31, 2003, regarding the Fair Labor
Standards Act. Since 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act is
the federal law that requires employers to pay overtime pay
for hours worked over forty per week. It has been estimated
that this Act provides overtime pay rights to over 80
million employees.
The Department of Labor's proposal threatens to wipe out the
overtime pay rights for millions of employees. Workers
who could lose their overtime protection include licensed
practical nurses, journalists, police, firefighters,
emergency medical technicians, paramedics, chefs,
secretaries, dental hygienists, bookkeepers, administrative
support workers, computer support staff, drafters,
surveyors, designers, graphic artists, working supervisors,
engineering technicians, planners, assistant and associate
architects, health technicians, paralegals and retail
workers.
The
Department of Labor's proposal
includes:
Anyone earning over $65,000 per year would lose overtime pay
rights. Currently, overtime rights are not affected by
income.
The proposals would wipe out the "long test" for overtime
that is more permissive for overtime pay rights.
The proposals seek to water down the definitions of what is
an exempt executive, administrator, or
professional. For example, under the current law, an
exempt employee must exercise discretion and independent
judgment. The proposals seek to eliminate that and replace
with weaker, easier to prove requirements such as that the
employee's recommendations for the change of status of
another employee is given weight or that they perform such
functions as "interpreting data".
The law would be changed to eliminate restrictions on the
amount of time the exempt employee can spend on non-exempt
type work.
What can you
do?
Get active and contact your congressman and senators.
Click here
to find senate addresses and information. Click
here
to find your U.S.
Congressman.
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