Again the Bush admin hits the working man. Comp time vs overtime.

http://alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16218
Do you agree with this?

I say bull excrement. Pay me for what I work. Period.

What’s next? Doing away with overtime?

I guess the pubbies forgot the hours our ancestors worked. How hard the labor unions worked to give the worker a decent work week.

Forward! To the past!

2004 is only a year and a half away.

Cry me a river.

I worked 80-hour weeks for six wears in a row. Where were you complaining about that and standing up for my rights?

Maybe now people will realize what it’s like working for peanuts at a McDonald’s, trying to pay the rent.

Now that I’m done chastizing you, to a certain extent I agree with what the author of the article is saying, but as usual it’s all blown out of proportion.

I sure would be nice to see a reasoned cite instead of one written by a raving liberal whiner.

It’s your time, take it and quit making excuses.

If I understand this correctly, it looks like a great idea. I am assuming that it is currently not legal for an employer to offer time off for overtime and that this bill would allow it. Grown-ups shoudl be allowed to choose. For many people, time off is more valuable than extra pay.

So stiffen it up a bit and say the employee gets to choose to take the cash or the time off. Other than that, sounds like a good thing to me. Extra compensation for extra work. The form of compensation could be regular pay while you sit on your butt or extra cash for your extra hours. As long as the employee gets to choose which they’d prefer then I don’t see a problem. It seems like the intent of the bill is to create this choice(otherwise, why upset the status quo at all?) and some loopholes are creating the problem of potential abuse by employers. Close the loophole, pass the thing and move on.

Enjoy,
Steven

It’s a good idea, but the particular law is a crappy one. They should force the company to give the employee the time off within 60 days of having done the overtime, rather than the waiting until the last minute. And I can see this as an excuse for some companies to slash vacation time, as the employees will have their time off by working for it.

Bad law.

I love my good old exempt “professional employee” job. Don’t have to worry about whether I get comp time or pay for MY overtime.

Mtgman…comp time is just time off. No money involved.

What overtime? Gotta love that exempt.

Dammit,what does the phrase :
“It would allow employees asked to work overtime to opt for compensatory time off, instead of overtime pay.” mean?

This is purely voluntary on the employees part. Labor Unions have been trying to get this for years.

Usually I choose to have the extra time off rather than the overtime pay. It’s an informal agreement between my boss and me and I like the option of taking off early one afternoon when a really lovely day comes along. It wasn’t all that long ago that some people were crying for the option to be able to do just that.

It didn’t take long in reading Joe Robinson’s article to realize that he’s one guy that needs to grow up.

It appears that thus far everyone agrees with it, at least in principle. There’s your answer.

I guess so if the people subjected to it get the comp time in a timely manner and when they want it. But it appears it will be at the whim of the employer.

Worker. Boss. I need my comp time.

Boss. Well we are busy now try next month.

Worker. But I need it now! I worked the overtime for you.

Boss. Tough excrement. Read the law.

Reread Neurotik’s post.

I agree with him on this. Remove that line about it being at the employer’s discretion, and it’s a perfectly good law.

Great idea if the employees would actually get their time.

I’d MUCH rather have a day off than overtime pay.

What happens if the company goes bankrupt? What are the protections for employees to get their compensation?

Reeder:

After reading the responses here, are still so sanguine about 2004?

So now you are editing the law?

And you really think the pubbies will remove that line? That line is the whole law.

Wanna buy a bridge?

I don’t think that line will go away, and for that reason I actually support the Democrats in their rejection of this.

That doesn’t change the fact that the idea overall is a good one.

I agree it would work as long as the worker had the right to decide when the comp time was taken. But that will never be allowed. Not by the pubbies anyway.

:rolleyes:

I’ll know when the Democrats propose something like this.

That’ll be when the Cubs win the Series.