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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
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.  |
Law is law but not everyone abides by the law and this includes employers. I for example once belonged to the Laborers union and worked for a contractor that decided he would work the crew for 12 hours per day without the four hours overtime pay. I for one went along with his program but kept track of the hours that I worked and when I quit the job I turned it over to the union as well as labor and they saw that I was paid for all of my overtime hours and fined the contractor. I have also known of employers that do not even pay the Federal minimum wage let alone the State minimum wage which is...in many states...higher...but for the wise person there are remedies to this problem.