I also glance at the news - it can be sadly very inspiring. Today's letter was about the “Working Families Flexibility Act” (H.R. 1180 / S. 801).
Because it adds NO flexibility they don't already have - for the worker - and lets the company defer overtime payment if the worker agrees (and if they only give overtime to those who agree...).
I mean, without the law, if you work a 50-hour week and a 25-hour week 3 months apart, for those two weeks in *total* you are paid 80 hours of pay (40+15 the first week, 25 the other).
With the law, if you do the same thing using comp time, in *total* you are paid 80 hours of pay...but the extra 15 hours of pay from the 50-hour week doesn't arrive until you take it as comp time in the 25-hour week.
Why are we adding a law to have employees loan their employers money from their wages??? O.o
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Date: 2017-04-27 02:58 pm (UTC)Because it adds NO flexibility they don't already have - for the worker - and lets the company defer overtime payment if the worker agrees (and if they only give overtime to those who agree...).
I mean, without the law, if you work a 50-hour week and a 25-hour week 3 months apart, for those two weeks in *total* you are paid 80 hours of pay (40+15 the first week, 25 the other).
With the law, if you do the same thing using comp time, in *total* you are paid 80 hours of pay...but the extra 15 hours of pay from the 50-hour week doesn't arrive until you take it as comp time in the 25-hour week.
Why are we adding a law to have employees loan their employers money from their wages??? O.o