Eric Cantor will propose Federal Law that Ends Overtime Pay for hourly workers

[jmowreader]

133. I have also been on the working end of this

If you're the only person currently in the building who knows how to order windows, and someone walks in fifteen minutes before you hit forty and wants to order windows, you do not leave until that order is staged. Period.

If you're the only person currently in the building with a forklift license and someone buys 300 feet of fencing ten minutes before you hit forty and needs it loaded, you do not leave until that order is loaded.

And if you have an asshole manager who doesn't believe in exceptions even if you call him and tell him you're taking care of a customer, you get written up. It's happened to me on several occasions - getting disciplined for doing your job.

Rank-and-file retail associates CAN clock out at forty; specialty associates like I was sometimes can't, and for them being able to work 80 hours in 14 days rather than 40 in seven would save them a LOT of pain.