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Congress Realizes New Overtime Rules Stink
- devhead 11y agoabsent from the article: companies could just not allow their non-exempt employees to work over 40hrs in a week. That might not cost them any money and you still prevent millions from automatically being forced to work more for less money.
- Finnucane 11y agoWhat, did you miss the part about how people _like_ to work overtime without pay?
- jrs235 11y ago"Employees like being exempt. They like the flexibility of not having to track their hours." From my understanding, they should still be tracking hours in case they misclassified the employee as exempt when they should not be [according to the DOL during a review or audit].
- jrs235 11y agoSome employers will deduct PTO hours for any time under 40 hours (or 80 for a two week pay period) in the office but don't give or allow accumulation of hours or 40 (or 80) for weeks they go over.
- Esau 11y agoThis article reads like it was written by the Chamber of Commerce.