Replies to post #2780 on RANT & CHAT - Politics Allowed (RANT-PA)

[TonyMcFadden]

easymoney, do you have a link to the bill that purportedly takes away overtime pay?

(I'm exempt, so it doesn't affect me...I regularly work 60 - 70 hour weeks with no overtime pay. Just interested in the wording)

TIA

[BullNBear52]

Easymoney101, The Senate passed the bill yesterday with the anti-overtime provision intact.

Democrats were especially angry over the overtime rule change, which both chambers had gone on record as opposing. Republican leaders argued it was needed to reflect modern workplace needs and practices, while Democrats denounced it as a sop to businesses that could cost up to 8 million workers a right to overtime pay that has existed since the 1930s.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1802&ncid=1802&e=2&u=/washpost/20040...