In article , Rex B says...

||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.

But gunner is a free market advocate. If his employer wants to
shaft him out of his OT, he votes - with his feet. Which is what
he did.

But at walmart or the like, the rule seems to be that folks get
branded 'managers' and then become exempt from labor laws, ie
they're on salary. Or, they are not exempt and are hourly, then
the store simply makes them work unpaid time as a condition of
retaining the job.

Unionization is one of those things that will prevent abuses like
that, but as I said, gunner is a free-market advocate and would
not choose that solution. I've never heard him complain about
his lost OT during union discussions so he's quite consistent
about this.

Problem is, if *all* the employers use that dodge, then you
cannot 'vote with your feet' any more.

Jim

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