Overtime Pay

First, take a look at the double speak from the official White House web-site.

Can someone please explain what this statement, or the proposed act means? Stock options, overtime calculations. . .? What the. . .? I couldn't find anything on the White House web site that was more directly related to the "Family-Time Flexibility Act."

Next, there has been slow, limited coverage of the government's move to revise the FLSA rules on overtime pay. Here's an AlterNet article on the "Family-Time Flexibility Act."

One study shows that these changes could eliminate overtime pay for nearly 8 million workers. The Economic Policy Institute reports that the "Department of Labor proposal means lower pay, longer hours for millions of workers." So, is this an integral part of the President's plan to put and leave more of the American worker's hard earned money in his own pocket? Notice how the majority of news on this issue came out a couple of days after the Departmen of Labor's 90-day public comment period which ended Monday, June 30, 2003.

This policy is so obviously geared toward protecting Bush's bottom line--corporate America's bottom line--profits. A nice smelly crock for us all to steep.