Overtime Just Getting Longer

You asked for it so this is one of the changes you’re going to probably get! You believe it can’t happen because “the people won’t stand for it”?! The President Elect is not beholden to you - he’s interested in his business and how he can help himself first then his friends.

I bet you’re accustomed to working 40hrs a week and that 41st hour is 1.5x your normal rate. How about if I told you they want to extend the time required to get that over a period of two or four weeks? Don’t believe me? It’s on page 592 of their project plan.

Congress should provide flexibility to employers and employees to calculate the overtime period over a longer number of weeks. Specifically, employers and employees should be able to set a two- or four- week period over which to calculate overtime. This would give workers greater flexibility to work more hours in one week and fewer hours in the next and would not require the employer to pay them more for that same total number of hours of work during the entire period.

Oh yea - my employer is all about doing it for ‘employee flexibility’ when it could reduce their financial outflow. In reality you’re going to end up working more one week and have your hours cut the second week, or get worked like a mule the first three weeks and just miss the threshold on the last week.

We haven’t even started with the unions yet but don’t worry - that’s coming in another post.