I've often thought the same about unpaid overtime for salary IT employees -- in some high profile cases where a company was successfully sued for unpaid overtim

I've often thought the same about unpaid overtime for salary IT employees -- in some high profile cases where a company was successfully sued for unpaid overtime, the affected employees were reclassified as hourly and given a pay adjustment that resulted 20% or lower than their previous pay (although their paychecks ended up being about the same, because they could then earn overtime).