Reading the text, I'm not seeing a loss of the time and a half provision. Comp time will have to be at time and a half. I understand that mo cash isn't a given under this bill but it isn't a straight time bill.
Reading the text, I'm not seeing a loss of the time and a half provision. Comp time will have to be at time and a half. I understand that mo cash isn't a given under this bill but it isn't a straight time bill.
Reading the text, I'm not seeing a loss of the time and a half provision. Comp time will have to be at time and a half.
Reading the text, I'm not seeing a loss of the time and a half provision. Comp time will have to be at time and a half. I understand that mo cash isn't a given under this bill but it isn't a straight time bill.
Except a company could make you take pay as comp time, then never actually take the time off. Thus going for time and half to zero time. At least I think that is the fear.
I just read the bill, and it looks damn good to me, actually. I have a natural distrust of republicans messing with labor laws, and with the dems fighting it hard there might be a catch I'm missing. But it looks like it is 100% employee's choice for comp time or pay, the comp time accrues at time and half, there are responsible max accruals, and unused comp time has to be paid out.
Really this is very similar to many companies policies for exempt engineers (except no time and half for engies). I personally always preferred comp time, unless I was working a ton of OT at once.
Does any one know what the Dems have against this?
Comp time could also be great for people that work unpredictable jobs where they could be working 7/12s one month, then have no work and no hours the next month.
As long as the claim to be against abortion, who cares.
I used to work with a ton of Union workers and they all thought it was democrats destroying unions. They even listened to all the right wing talking heads, that bash unions non-stop. I have no idea how people can be so stupid.
Similar with me. I used to manage a bunch of organized guys (CWA). I won't say most because the majority didn't care but I will say the vocal ones really wanted to vote Republican but never found them good enough on trade. Makes sense to me why Trump won.
A union working man voting for a Republican is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders...
Reading the text, I'm not seeing a loss of the time and a half provision. Comp time will have to be at time and a half. I understand that mo cash isn't a given under this bill but it isn't a straight time bill.
You do not appear acquainted with the exquisite satisfaction one can apparently derive from stiggin' it to the libs!Is there something I am not seeing about this? Why in the world does anybody think this is a good thing?
This is how to approach elections - tell voters to look at every piece of legislation the GOP has passed when in the majority. They all favor corporations over individuals, employers over employees, rich over poor. Every. Single. Time. Their populist messaging is a big lie. The dems need to bang this drum over and over again. Starting with that disgraceful internet privacy bill. The GOP is in power and they need to own it all.
Most voters don't even know they're doing this kind of thing. Conservatives don't read the mainstream press. At most they know about only the largest legislative initiatives like healthcare. Even those voters who read mainstream press barely notice things like this. Time to educate voters.
Except a company could make you take pay as comp time, then never actually take the time off. Thus going for time and half to zero time. At least I think that is the fear.
I just read the bill, and it looks damn good to me, actually. I have a natural distrust of republicans messing with labor laws, and with the dems fighting it hard there might be a catch I'm missing. But it looks like it is 100% employee's choice for comp time or pay, the comp time accrues at time and half, there are responsible max accruals, and unused comp time has to be paid out.
Really this is very similar to many companies policies for exempt engineers (except no time and half for engies). I personally always preferred comp time, unless I was working a ton of OT at once.
Does any one know what the Dems have against this?
Comp time could also be great for people that work unpredictable jobs where they could be working 7/12s one month, then have no work and no hours the next month.
I fail to see an issue with this:
“(i) in which the employer has offered and the employee has chosen to receive compensatory time in lieu of monetary overtime compensation; and
“(ii) entered into knowingly and voluntarily by such employee and not as a condition of employment.
And
(3) HOUR LIMIT.—
“(A) MAXIMUM HOURS.—An employee may accrue not more than 160 hours of compensatory time.
“(B) COMPENSATION DATE.—Not later than January 31 of each calendar year, the employee’s employer shall provide monetary compensation for any unused compensatory time off accrued during the preceding calendar year that was not used prior to December 31 of the preceding year at the rate prescribed by paragraph (6). An employer may designate and communicate to the employer’s employees a 12-month period other than the calendar year, in which case such compensation shall be provided not later than 31 days after the end of such 12-month period.
It reads that the employee makes the choice and the employer has to compensate at 1.5 rate.
I fail to see an issue with this:
“(i) in which the employer has offered and the employee has chosen to receive compensatory time in lieu of monetary overtime compensation; and
“(ii) entered into knowingly and voluntarily by such employee and not as a condition of employment.
And
(3) HOUR LIMIT.—
“(A) MAXIMUM HOURS.—An employee may accrue not more than 160 hours of compensatory time.
“(B) COMPENSATION DATE.—Not later than January 31 of each calendar year, the employee’s employer shall provide monetary compensation for any unused compensatory time off accrued during the preceding calendar year that was not used prior to December 31 of the preceding year at the rate prescribed by paragraph (6). An employer may designate and communicate to the employer’s employees a 12-month period other than the calendar year, in which case such compensation shall be provided not later than 31 days after the end of such 12-month period.
It reads that the employee makes the choice and the employer has to compensate at 1.5 rate in either time or money as the employee chooses.
“(6) RATE OF COMPENSATION.—
“(A) GENERAL RULE.—If compensation is to be paid to an employee for accrued compensatory time off, such compensation shall be paid at a rate of compensation not less than—
“(i) the regular rate earned by such employee when the compensatory time was accrued; or
“(ii) the regular rate earned by such employee at the time such employee received payment of such compensation,
whichever is higher.
Is there something I am not seeing about this? Why in the world does anybody think this is a good thing?
“(B) in the case of an employee who is not represented by a labor organization that has been certified or recognized as the representative of such employee under applicable law, an agreement arrived at between the employer and employee before the performance of the work and affirmed by a written or otherwise verifiable record maintained in accordance with section 11(c)—
“(i) in which the employer has offered and the employee has chosen to receive compensatory time in lieu of monetary overtime compensation; and
“(ii) entered into knowingly and voluntarily by such employee and not as a condition of employment.
“(E) WRITTEN REQUEST.—An employee may withdraw an agreement described in paragraph (2)(B) at any time. An employee may also request in writing that monetary compensation be provided, at any time, for all compensatory time accrued that has not yet been used. Within 30 days of receiving the written request, the employer shall provide the employee the monetary compensation due in accordance with paragraph (6).
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Except a company could make you take pay as comp time, then never actually take the time off. Thus going for time and half to zero time. At least I think that is the fear.
I just read the bill, and it looks damn good to me, actually. I have a natural distrust of republicans messing with labor laws, and with the dems fighting it hard there might be a catch I'm missing. But it looks like it is 100% employee's choice for comp time or pay, the comp time accrues at time and half, there are responsible max accruals, and unused comp time has to be paid out.
Really this is very similar to many companies policies for exempt engineers (except no time and half for engies). I personally always preferred comp time, unless I was working a ton of OT at once.
Does any one know what the Dems have against this?
Comp time could also be great for people that work unpredictable jobs where they could be working 7/12s one month, then have no work and no hours the next month.
Ok read the bill. It is voluntary. Employees cannot be compelled to take comp time and those that agree to it can withdraw from the agreement. I got that just reading the first 3 paragraphs of the bill.
Paragraph 6 doesn't effect rate. If you choose to convert your comp time to pay you are being paid for all the comp time at regular rate because your comp time earned is already 1.5 times actual hours worked.You forgot to make it to paragraph 6
And let's not gloss over the part where anything over 80 hours the employer can just give you the money whenever they choose. Can't have people with time off out here, no sir, then they have time to protest.
Totally agree with you in the sense that many working class Repubs have isolated themselves insofar as where they get their information from. They have been conditioned to acquire their information from sources that exclusively reinforces what they were told to believe by the very Repub legislators who want their constituents to remain ignorant of what their true intentions are.
A tight insulated looping circle of disninformation results and it obviously works quite well for the GOP and especially for the big moneyed interests that own their asses.
posting just an article with no comments is not allowed? they didnt even have an explanation of the subject matter?
You forgot to make it to paragraph 6
And let's not gloss over the part where anything over 80 hours the employer can just give you the money whenever they choose. Can't have people with time off out here, no sir, then they have time to protest.
Paragraph 6 days they have to give them the higher of current wages or previous wages. That's good.
Now you are complaining that a company could make someone take OT pay as opposed to comp time? I thought the complaint was they could give comp time as opposed to OT?
We both know nearly anyone who takes time off instead of 1.5 pay is a fool so why even make it an option. I'm not very interested in very, very limited examples because something like this should be passed to help the majority not a sub set of a tiny minority.