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Representative Martha Roby (R-AL), who introduced the bill, suggests the legislation would relieve work-family pressures parents--especially moms--feel, by letting them potentially take more time off in lieu of overtime pay they would otherwise collect. Stating that the comp time off could be used "to spend more time with their children, attend parent-teacher conferences, or care for an aging relative," the bill sounds like a step toward a family-friendly America, especially at a time when the U.S. ranks only a poor 30th on the just-released "Best Place to be a Mother" list. Yet opponents say it's the wrong approach. Low wage workers, in particular, need schedule predictability and consistency, to plan their household budgets and child care. They need the overtime dollars, not a promise of time off later--time that may not coincide anyway with their family's routine or emergency needs.
http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/05/congresss-doomed-misguided-attempt-to-help-working-families/275718/
Fortunately, it may not pass the Senate and if it does, Obama threatens to veto.
If this does pass, it will allow employers to work people endless hours at peak times and virtually lay them off at times of lower needs, all without paying for the extra hours or the trouble of actually laying them off. The American worker gets screwed again!
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)And that's exaggerating its chances.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)no other New Deal element is sacred, since Social Security is the absolute bedrock upon which all other New Deal bargains are founded.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)DOA.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)The Dems in the Senate will ensure that this bill is DOA.
Zen Democrat
(5,901 posts)liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)It does offer me quite a bit of flexibility as you legally only have to work like 6 hours per day to get paid for the full day, so when I was hourly before that and had a doctor appointment I would clock out and take off for 2 hours and not get paid for it. Now on salary they are a lot more flexible, so they just let me take the 2 hours off and not worry about making it up.
mick063
(2,424 posts)The 1% puppets will make it law. I don't trust any of them.
What a half assed, lame, condescending excuse.
Flexibility for the family. There are just enough dumb shits out there that actually believe corporate America is genuinely concerned about family flexibility.
This is about working for less money. Period.
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)I hope so.
The worst case scenario is that you build up 3 weeks of "comp time" and then get laid off.
Whoops. Tough times, eh?
Orsino
(37,428 posts)But when it gets attached to something too important, watch it pass and be signed into law.
edhopper
(33,575 posts)of anyone working for a wage voting Republican.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)Ugh. I hope it dies a slow, painful death in the Senate.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)It's much easier to pass the Anyone Who Opposes This Eats Kittens Alive Act than it would be to pass HR 3153, even if the content was identical, and good lord are US legislation names loaded these days.
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)Instead they go to big business and ask them what they need to save on labor expenses and then dress it up as a pro-worker bill.
This is a farce.
Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)It's time to write a nice note to the WH reminding our president that we expect him to veto.
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)Do nothing and it could pass.