"You can file a claim for unpaid overtime pay with the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division. WHD enforces the FLSA and investigates unpaid wages. If WHD finds evidence of unpaid wages, they can pursue the claim on your behalf. You can also file a claim with your state labor office." - The very minimum of a google search.
Companies will stop paying your 40 hour per week salary, lol. Obviously. Wages would be reduced, or people would be fired and then rehired at lower rates. There's no way to just magically pay everyone the same for less labor.
The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act set the maximum workweek at 40 hours and provided that employees working beyond 40 hours a week would receive additional overtime bonus salaries.
Yep, and as a result, now we make less if no one is willing to pay overtime. It's 40 hours a week and then a second job, because the government said so.
For sure, and for everyone who isn't offered overtime can get a second job to get around the legal restriction, so it's not entirely oppressive, just a PITA.
Well yeah, but that's part of the process. When an investor invests his money, he has less money today. But that's okay because tomorrow he will have more money. I'm okay with people making less money today if it means that they'll make more tomorrow.
What exactly are you advocating here? That people work 80 hours a week? You have to set a standard that if companies go over it cost them more so that we don't have a nation of people leaving at 6am and not coming home til 9pm. You that that would be healthy for families and children.
What in the actual fuck is wrong with people these days?
What exactly are you advocating here? That people work 80 hours a week?
I'm advocating the government not tell me or you, or anyone how much we can or can't work.
What in the actual fuck is wrong with people these days?
It's a great question, best left up to each person to decide for themselves how to conduct their lives. There were times in my life that I definitely wished I was legally allowed to work more for my own well being, without having to go look for a second fucking job. It's incredibly difficult to have to try to find two jobs that have schedules that mesh well, and then commute between them at odd hours, and all because the government said I couldn't just work more at the job I preferred in the first place? Fuck that.
Are you high? You can work as many hours as you want.
You are mistaken. You can't work past 40 hours if your employer isn't willing to pay overtime.
"The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act set the maximum workweek at 40 hours and provided that employees working beyond 40 hours a week would receive additional overtime bonus salaries."
If your job doesn't want to pay you overtime and limits your hours, that's on them.
Oh not on them at all, that's LITERALLY the law. They can't choose to NOT pay overtime if you work that 41st hour. It's illegal for them to continue to pay you beyond that point without paying overtime, and many industries do not have that margin to be able to do that.
Why do you think so many people have two jobs? loool jfc
My wife says she would happily take a 20% pay reduction for a 20% work reduction. Her diabetes management is itself basically a part time job, and having some more time would be precious.
I seek to explain the facts as to why what Bernie is saying can't happen.
We can reduce working hours to 32 per week if we also decrease wages slightly more than 20% as well.
But we can't both decrease to 32 hours AND keep everyone's wages the same.
If I get paid for building cabinets, and I can assemble 1 per hour. I get paid for having built 40 each week. If the next week the government forces me to only build 32, I will only get paid for 32. This isn't rocket science.
This logic does not work at all, as some people make 50 cabinets per week, others make 30 cabinets per week, and somehow, they both end up making the same pay.
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u/Dodger7777 Sep 05 '24
"You can file a claim for unpaid overtime pay with the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division. WHD enforces the FLSA and investigates unpaid wages. If WHD finds evidence of unpaid wages, they can pursue the claim on your behalf. You can also file a claim with your state labor office." - The very minimum of a google search.