[lit-ideas] one more example
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- Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 00:21:28 EDT
Republicans taking away your overtime pay even as they do nothing to stop job
outsourcing? Predation!
Most people too tired to take time from their daily comforts to resist it?
Gravity!
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Contentious Overtime Overhaul to Begin Next Week
By LEIGH STROPE, AP
WASHINGTON (Aug. 20) -- In an unprecedented overhaul of the nation's overtime
pay rules, the Bush administration is delivering to its business allies an
election-year plum they've sought for decades.
The new rules take effect Monday after surviving many efforts by Democrats,
labor unions and worker advocates to block them in Congress and kill them
through public and political pressure. The administration and business groups
say
the old regulations were out of date and confusing, and were sparking
multimillion dollar lawsuits.
The Labor Department says no more than 107,000 workers will lose overtime
eligibility from the changes, but about 1.3 million will gain it. The Economic
Policy Institute, a liberal Washington think tank, says 6 million will lose,
and
only a few will get new rights to premium pay for working more than 40 hours
a week.
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