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Originally Posted by theking
Fact...the Republican Congress did change it and not that long ago. I did not make anything up and there is nothing patently false in anything that I said. There was a major outcry about the change in the law specifically from Nurses. So check your facts before you speak.
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Originally Posted by theking
It may have been the Fair Play act passed in 2004 (but as I stated I am not going to research the matter so I am not certain about the specific act or when it was passed) that according to the Republicans was designed to provide overtime pay for more than forty hours per week of work that previously employers were not required to pay to certain employees...but in essence what it really did was give an out for employers not to have to pay overtime for working more than eight hours per day. Some employers took advantage of this...some did not...but overall it hurt the working man.
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Translation: I made shit up, I got called out, and now I can't back it up...so I'm going to attack the person who called me out and tell them to check their facts.
The fact is that federal overtime laws have NEVER, EVER, EVER, required employers to pay overtime for people who worked more than 8 hours per day.
It has required employers to pay overtime for more than 40 hours in a week.
As for your fact check, the 40 hour work week was a policy signed into law by FDR. The idea was that it would be better to have more people working 40 hour weeks than fewer people working 60+ hour weeks, which was the standard at that time.
Under the rules that were changed in 2004, they exempted some professions and changed the rules on what the income limits would be for "salaried employees" who do not receive overtime.
The rule was NEVER that over 8 hours a day was overtime, and therefore, that rule was not changed, because it never existed.