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Originally Posted by theking
Up until the Republican controlled congress...if you were employed over 20 hours per week anything over eight hours per day was overtime pay. The Republican controlled congress changed it to be anything over forty hours per week...which screwed a major portion of the working people out of extra income.
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You really need to back this up with data.
I had my first job during the George H.W. Bush administration and the democrats controlled congress....and the law was that overtime was for over 40 hours a week....there was nothing in the labor laws about over 8 hours a day.
Now alot of union contracts call for overtime for anything over 8 hours a day, and some employers may voluntarily offer that to their people. But not since I had my first job in 1990 was that ever federal law.
The republicans didn't take control of congress until 1994.
