Yup. Sanders, who couldn’t convince his own followers not to vote against their interests, was gonna convince everyone else to vote for him.
Is that magic wand battery-operated or solar-powered?
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“Today’s preliminary injunction reinforces the importance of the rule of law and constitutional government.”
Today’s injunction proves that stacking the court at every available opportunity has paid off big time in helping to keep the 99% in place and corporations in their rightful sphere of complete dominance
The regulation sought to shrink the so-called “white collar exemption” that allows employers to skip overtime pay for salaried administrative or professional workers who make more than about $23,660 per year. Critics say it’s wrong that some retail and restaurant chains pay low-level managers as little as $25,000 a year and no overtime — even if they work 60 hours a week.
Don’t see anything wrong with making people work 60 hours per week on a low paying salary - this scam has been working for years to avoid existing labor laws. How dare a democrat try to help reduce this abuse in the labor market
As someone who has worked in this exact situation in Arizona and knows many people stuck in this same situation I can assure you of 2 things - it is very sad that this has been stopped and the majority of people in this situation areprobably not aware of this coming and will not be aware of how they have been screwed. Many of them probably voted for Trump and will never know that this has happened to them. When you work 60 hours a week you don’t have much time to keep up with the deeper part of politics.
As a side note, I am getting really tired of seeing every discussion on the TPM boards devolve into Hillary versus Bernie within one or two comments. Can’t imagine this is going to help us move forward in this brand new world.
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Very frustrating. Either the relevant agency has the power to set the overtime amount or it does not. But the ruling says, effectively “yes, but not quite so much.” WTF? This judge is going to be a fact-finder on an administrative matter where there is no clear guideline in the law, because the executive branch was clearly supposed to have discretion in this matter. Now what, a trial that brings in all the economic data published in the last 20 years?
This is, in its own way, a serious judicial coup.
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I haven’t read the decision (by an Obama appointee, by the way), but I did see that the Judge had concerns about the salary marker. As we know, the overtime part of the Fair Labor Standards Act exempts employees who perform certain kinds of duties (professional, executive, and administrative) and who earn more than $455 a week (or about $27,000 a year). The new rules that were put on hold changed that salary threshold to $913 a week, or about $47,500 a year. It seems to me there’s a legitimate question whether an agency can change by rule an amount added by Congress in a statute.
As I say, I haven’t read the opinion, but before we jerk our knees we should think about this.
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Outstanding expostulation by Eichenwald
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Can you explain that for me? I am not an economist and do not see the connection which seems obvious to you.
If unions are dismantled, it will be because union members and their families voted for Trump. So, let’s not get too sentimental here.
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Thank you. Maybe we can but it aside post-Nov.
I’m not. I’m well aware that they voted against their own interests. So, if that’s the case, they deserve whatever comes their way.
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I don’t think I’ve read a bigger piece of BS this week than “it would increase compliance costs for employers who would have to track hours more meticulously” because, you know, they’re pretty haphazard about it now, right? My boss just believes whatever I tell her…
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Yeah…c’mon Obama…the (conservative) Federal Courts are colluding with the new power structure in saving that money for the 1% to steal. What were you THINKING? Helping people?
My daughter signed a salary contract to be an “assistant assistant manager” at a new location of her boss’s deli chain. The place opened last week and she has been working literally around the clock. 13 hours a day, 7 days a week.
She looked forward to December 1st, when she would start getting her absurd hours cut back or get overtime pay for them. In fact, she signed the contract (with its inadequate salary) thinking about this rule going into effect. She expected to have to work the overtime, but at least she would then have enough money to pay for primo 12-12 child care to cover her entire shifts.
She is now screwed. The boss can work her any hours he wants, and her 2 year old is having to endure a patchwork of bargain basement child care situations that have to overlap to cover all the hours. She’s having to have other people shuttle the boy from daycare to babysitter and back. It’s the purest insanity.
“Get another job”? You think it’s going to be different anywhere else, now that nobody has to pay any overtime? (Besides, she’s already worked her way up beyond entry level, which is all she’d be able to get in another industry.)
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I’m so sorry to hear that. I hope she has something in writing somewhere about being on a higher salary from Dec 1st.
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They will remain triumphant in their ignorance. Their misinformation streams of Fox, Facebook and False news sites will prevent them from any substantive awareness or understanding of this. I would bet the mortgage that few ever knew of the pending law to make them non-exempt below the 47.5K cutoff.
Trump made many trip wire promises to win over the BSO (bright shiny objects)low information adoring masses. This is not one of them.
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Nope. She signed the contract thinking ahead to this rule, but the boss said nary a word about it, nor did the contract, of course.
Corporations and the State working hand in hand, lockstep even, towards a common goal of centralizing power…
What could go wrong?
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Obviously white workers don’t want overtime pay or protection. After all, the media keeps assuring us that they voted for the party opposed to overtime protections, the minimum wage, Social Security, and medicare for economic reasons so the only reasonable conclusion is that the white working class doesn’t want those things. Fortunately it seems that their chosen party is willing to oblige them, unfortunately the rest of us get dragged down with them.
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Employers have done a ton of work getting ready for this order to be implemented. Workers have been notified… and now what do they do? Just dead stop?
Will no one think of the economically anxious white working class!!111!!!
First it was the smug liberals, who completely ignored them (despite having detailed policies that would have helped them in so many ways, but they didn’t say heil Hitler enough so clearly were ignoring the economically anxious whites). And now the courts don’t even care. Clearly the answer is for economically anxious whites to elect people who will nominate members of the court who will approve policies that continue the transfer of money from the economically anxious to the billionaires.
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It’s gibberish that doesn’t mean anything.
if the person actually knew what they were talking about they would actually say something that makes sense, not the Palinesque word salad this person has typed out.