"Rex B" wrote in message
...

||
||Things went along swimmingly until one payday I noticed that my 30hrs
||OT seemed to be missing from my weekly check..when I politely
||inquired..he bluntly told me that as I was "management", he no longer
||needed to pay me OT. After a bit of discussion with the little
||****ant, I sucked it up and a week later got into the machine tool
||business via a customer/friend.

I understand there is some legislation in the works to close that
loophole.
The office left-winger was in here sneering about it. Took me a while to
understand how he was able to make a negative out of it. All i could do
was
shake my head.
Rex in Fort Worth

I think you have your wings on backwards, Rex. The proposed legislation was
a bill that was defeated in the House last year. It was proposed by the Bush
administration and it was supported by Republicans along party lines, with a
few defectors voting against it for defeat, 213 - 210.

What it would have done is to re-classify hourly workers who have "learned
experience" from working at a job. It also would have re-classified anyone
who had any "supervisory" responsibility at all, which included helping to
train a new hand in any way.

If the law had passed, overtime would have been eliminated for millions of
workers, by most estimates.

It isn't likely you're talking about anything going on at the state level,
because federal law overrides it, by way of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Ed Huntress