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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Thursday, January 29, 2004 ::
Working the System By Dave Lindorff, In These Times
When the Bush administration announced plans last year for a controversial “reform” of New Deal-era wage and hour regulations, it assured Congress and labor unions that the proposal would make overtime pay available to some 1.3 million low-paid workers—even as it removed many high-paid employees from overtime protection.
It now turns out that the administration’s Department of Labor (DOL), in a little-noticed report on the proposed regulations published in the Federal Register, actually was offering alert employers a set of instructions on how to avoid paying overtime to many of those long-suffering low-paid workers.------------------------------------------- posted 7:24 AM :: reference link ::
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