411
New Biden rule would make 4 million white-collar workers eligible for overtime pay
(www.usatoday.com)
this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2024
411 points (98.8% liked)
News
23267 readers
2952 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Even more important that the one time bump is the very last line of the article:
Rather than having to fight for these things every few years, we need to just tie minimum wage and the overtime floor to CPI. But, that's something the GOP will fight tooth and nail.
Or just not exempt anyone from overtime?
If you're a "manager" and making less than 100k, you're not the problem. You're likely someone who busted their ass for decades already.
But it doesn't matter who it is, if you work overtime you should be paying for it.
All means testing does, is split support for it.
It also makes it more expensive to implement, because there is bureaucratic labor involved in compliance.
Yep, and guess how a fast food manager making 65k but has to work 80 hours weeks is going to vote when we say we need to raise minimum wage.
I don't get how people don't see this.
The rich will always try to draw the "class warfare line" well below where it needs to be so they have a shot in winning politically.
And the rich aren't just paying off Republican politicians to accomplish that.
Excellent point. It is important to note that anytime employees stand up to employers, you get no shortage of propaganda trying to shout over the top of the issue that these workers dont deserve to be treated better bc of X, Y, or Z.
Like how when actors or athletes try to get a bigger piece of the pie and u get a throng of poors getting mad at them instead of getting mad at the multibillion dollar corporations that are capable of paying them as much.
A higher paid salary has negotiating power when being asked to work over time. Want me to stay late for a couple days no problem. Want me to work overtime for a couple weeks? Then I need to be paid at least straight time for every hour worked past 40.
So far I haven’t had any issues with this approach. They either pony up or suddenly it’s not that urgent. Have yet to be fired, but I don’t get asked to work overtime unless it’s truly needed now.
That is nowhere near universal and doesn’t address the fairness issue at all. What’s fair is fair. Your salary is for 40h/wk dedication. No bullshit negotiation every time you’re asked to work more.
Lol
Yeah. All those fast food and Walmart managers have sooooo much bargaining power.
Those fast food and Walmart managers probably don’t make above the threshold, and the ones who do probably set their own hours and delegate down the chain anyway
https://www.indeed.com/cmp/McDonald's/salaries/General-Manager