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Obama set to use sneaky administrative maneuver to force huge wage increase
Canada Free Press ^ | 06/08/15 | Dan Calabrese

Posted on 06/08/2015 10:51:53 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony

The overlord of overtime.

Obama set to use sneaky administrative maneuver to force huge wage increaseHis cheerleaders at the worst web site in the world call it “the most ambitious government intervention on wages in a decade,” and since this is the Obama Administration we’re talking about, you surely won’t be surprised to know it’s happening without any involvement from Congress.

Barack Obama isn’t going to get Congress to pass a statutory increase in the minimum wage, but he’s very skilled at finding ways to push executive authority to the legal limit - or beyond - to accomplish goals he can’t achieve legislatively. So Obama plans to explode wages by executive fiat by using what Dean Vernon Wormer might call a “little-known codicil” in existing law concerning overtime pay.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: minimumwage; obama; overtime; wages

1 posted on 06/08/2015 10:51:53 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
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To: Sean_Anthony
Dean Vernon Wormer might call a “little-known codicil”

Stupid, a puppet and ball-busted is no way to go through life son.

I know, but they got me this far.

2 posted on 06/08/2015 10:58:45 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (When things are rightly ordered, man is steward of God's gifts and civIns law enables him to do so.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
[snip] Obama plans to explode wages by executive fiat by using what Dean Vernon Wormer might call a "little-known codicil" in existing law concerning overtime pay. [/snip]

3 posted on 06/08/2015 10:58:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: Sean_Anthony

If he does this he will basically take away overtime from the people who could use it the most.


4 posted on 06/08/2015 11:01:43 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

When does this guy do anything the correct way?


5 posted on 06/08/2015 11:14:42 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

The next POTUS must attach to each budget bill a stipulation that all regulations enacted by federal agencies are invalid unless Congress ratifies them by a 2/3 majority...like a treaty.


6 posted on 06/08/2015 11:16:28 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (President Walker - Attorney General Cruz (enforcing immigration laws for real))
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To: Sean_Anthony

I’m having trouble getting outraged about this:
1. If the law say Obama’s minions set the cutoff, it’s a refreshing change for him to be actually following the law and adjusting the cutoff.
2. I have never worked anywhere that didn’t give hourly employees who made more that $26k time and a half for overtime. They either paid overtime without concerning themselves how much someone makes per year or used some sneaky Pete BS to claim everyone was a contractor or something to avoid paying anyone overtime. I have never heard of people who make more than $26k not getting time and a half for overtime, ever.
3. No, I don’t think it would be reasonable to say someone who gets paid between $26k and $52k shouldn’t get time and a half for overtime.


7 posted on 06/08/2015 11:21:50 AM PDT by thorvaldr
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I can't think of any state where an hourly employee doesn't get time-and-a-half for working more than 40 hours in a week.

Now, if this means that you can't claim someone is a salaried employee unless they earn more than $52K per year, I could see how that would have a big impact on employers who put lower wage employees on salary to avoid paying overtime.

Otherwise, I don't see the big deal either.

8 posted on 06/08/2015 12:22:23 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: pierrem15

Hmmm. I didn’t read it as that being the cutoff for what you have to pay someone to say they are salary rather than hourly. But if that is what they mean then $52k is probably reasonable and $26k is way crazy too low.


9 posted on 06/08/2015 12:34:49 PM PDT by thorvaldr
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To: Sean_Anthony

People are paid what they are worth, and they are worth what they are paid. That is what the labor market provides.

The “Minimum Wage” is the minimum a person must be paid, and, it is the minimum a person must be worth. Anyone worth less than $15/hr will lose their job when the “Minimum Wage” is $15/hr.

By retail and agriculture automation stock.


10 posted on 06/08/2015 1:07:21 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: thorvaldr
In many states servers get half of the federal minimum wage, in other states ~$2.13.

Large chains already pay servers time and a half for over 40 hours. This may affect salaried middle management at many restaurant locations.

I suspect that smaller retail stores and restaurants will feel the brunt of this. It works out to about $12.50/hr.

In small town America, there are many jobs that this may impact.

11 posted on 06/08/2015 1:57:10 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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For anybody who’s interested, here’s a relatively brief history of the FLSA OT provisions and exemption standards. You may not agree with the writers’ specific recommendations, but it is clear that the proposed change would not be pursuant to some “little-known codicil” but consistent with the way the levels have been adjusted since the law was enacted. Further, such an adjustment is WAY overdue.

http://www.epi.org/publication/inflation-adjusted-salary-test-bring-needed/


12 posted on 06/08/2015 2:20:36 PM PDT by Vesparado (The American people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard --- HL Mencken)
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To: texas booster

I don’t want to get all “Mr. Pink” here but I have never agreed with the idea that a restaurant should underpay their wait staff and then expect for you to pay the wait staff for them and have your meal cost 15% more than they said it would. I quit going to a restaurant (that is now out of business) because they switched to table service instead of ordering at the counter. Basically they had just raised their prices by 15% and made me have to wait and hope for the server to see I needed a drink refill instead of being able to just go get it myself. But anyway..

If they are changing the wage you have to pay someone in order to call them salary instead of hourly, it makes sense that it would mostly affect people who manage fast food restaurants or retail establishment of a similar scope. If we go beyond the question of whether the government should be able to micromanage your business (the idea that they can has been around a lot longer than Obama) then I’m going to have to say that paying someone $27k to manage your restaurant and expecting him to work more than 40 hours and be there all the time does sound like a crappy deal.


13 posted on 06/08/2015 2:23:43 PM PDT by thorvaldr
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To: thorvaldr
Agreed. I grew up in a family restaurant and learned how to work both early and late. Would highly recommend it for any kid that wants to learn about people. It led me into a career in commissioned sales.

I don't mind tipping and tend to overtip. There are dozens of servers across the country that see me enter the door and race to the front to seat me. I travel 150+ days per year and will often camp out in a restaurant rather than wait in an airport or hide in a hotel room. I understand that such actions on my part deserve a bit more of a tip.

All my girls worked in full service restaurants and came to understand the concept of tips = commissions; good service = good tips. Two out of three paid their way through college serving in restaurants.

What has changed is the dynamic of the restaurant business. The government (at all levels) can really micromanage a business to the point where profits are nearly impossible. So the owner hires inexperienced (cheap) managers and pays a waitress wage and cuts every corner they can ... leading to bad restaurants at the low end of the scale and irregular service in the middle class restaurants.

Most countries do not have a tip system in place (except at bars), and few servers like working Sunday after church due to poor tippers. The media has even embarrassed a few politicians to start overtipping.

The restaurant business is not for most people. The owner will build the business he wants, so I have always asked to meet the owners of the places where my kids served. There is no substitute for an honest, generous owner. A bad owner will build a crappy business, as you said.

These honest, generous owners are just very hard to find any more.

14 posted on 06/08/2015 6:50:08 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: pierrem15

I live in Virginia and the Hourly Rate for no overtime is $27 an hour, but if they pay you by week it is a lot less. Like 11 per hour.


15 posted on 06/30/2015 7:03:56 PM PDT by ClayinVA ("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
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