RE: Overtime Will Be Outlawed

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

What's wrong with unions?



The proposed changes mean that the minmum wage BELOW WHICH A WORKER CANNOT BE CALLED EXEMPT is raised from 7750/year to 21350/year ( I used a 2000-hour year).  However, workers need not be employed for a full year for this to take effect, because it is based on a weekly, not annual, wage so that a worker making $11/hour working 60 hours a week for 13 weeks, say, can be called "exempt" (designated a "learned professional" for example) and paid for only 40 hours per week for his or her 13 weeks.



Moreover, the "learned professional" category is a nice catchall.  Teachers on nine-month contracts are a good example.  A teacher who makes $32000 for nine months, or $820/week, spends 6 to 7 hours a day at the school and at least another 2 hours a day in preparation or grading or parents' nights or other activities.  So that is a minimum of one hour a day unpaid because the teacher is a "professional" which amounts to a minimum of 195 hours of unpaid work for a school year.  And teachers only got that $32000 because they do have unions.



Contractors have faced this for years.  



Ruth 



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