Interesting article history you have.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:impetrio1/index?tab=articles
Reads more like a marketing campaign.
Well considering we used to work 12-hours a day 6 days a week 100 years ago, I guess getting rid of the 40 hour work week was inevitable. I always thought it should be a four day work week anyway with Fridays off but a 9 hour day and everyone salaried. Too many are looking at the clock to get off work because of hourly pay. If everyone was salaried then people would not be so quick to run out the door due to overtime rules. I really wish I were President some days.
What’s a 40 hr work week? My husband hasn’t worked a 40 hr work week in years. Long before Obama. I was working more than 40 hours a week as well. Still struggling. The only “luxury” we have is cell phones, and I have to have one for work.
40 hour work week? What is that? I usually hit 40 hours around wednesday afternoon.
The dems have been trumpeting their bogus “war on women” charge at the GOP during the last few election cycles. With more justification conservatives could charge dems with waging a war on full time work.
The war started all the way back in the thirties under FDR, with the Fair Labor Standard Act’s mandate for time and one-half for overtime hours worked (currently after forty hours), making hours worked in excess of the standard more expensive for the employer.
In 1993, The Family and Medical Leave Act was passed, mandating twelve weeks of leave for employees. The leave wasn’t required to be paid, but the employer had to maintain health coverage during the leave, at a cost of $500 per month or more. However, an employee has to have worked 1250 hour in the twelve months immediately preceding the need for leave in order to be eligible, providing employers an incentive to keep many employees’ hours to twenty-five hours a week or so.
In 2010, of course, the dems dropped the immense load of sewage known as the Affordable Care Act on the American workforce. The ACA notoriously mandates health insurance coverage for employees - but only if they work at least thirty hours per week.
Later this summer, the labor department is expected to drop new overtime regulations on employers; the regulations are expected to make millions of currently exempt employees eligible for overtime.
When Americans wake up and discover that all of our full-time jobs have been exported to China, the dems and the MSM will, of course, blame the GOP.