You have to hand it to the Republicans — they keep pushing the same evil ideas and they never give up. (Unlike the Democrats, who don’t even try.)
In a bid for women’s support and votes, the GOP launched an aggressive ad campaign on “mommy blogs” on Tuesday. The ads will tout its deceptively titled Working Families Flexibility Actthat would weaken overtime pay laws:
The banner ads will be featured on over 100 websites popular among women and geo-targeted to be viewed by residents in 20 Democratic-held congressional districts targeted by the GOP for 2014. […]
The $20,000 ad buy, running on sites including Ikeafans.com and MarthaStewart.com through Friday, will call on Democrats to vote with House Republicans next week on a bill to give hourly private sector workers more flexibility to choose between compensatory time and cash payment for overtime work.
“Tell Rep. Kyrsten Sinema you shouldn’t have to choose between work and family,” reads one ad set to run in Sinema’s suburban Phoenix district. “Will Rep. Collin Peterson stand up for working moms?” reads another that’s slated to run in Peterson’s western Minnesota district. The banner ads link to a petition site calling on lawmakers to support “more freedom for working moms.”
There’s no doubt that many Americans are overworked and in need of policies that better allow them to balance their families and their jobs. But the GOP’s solution is not much of a solution at all. Rather than giving workers the ability to accrue paid leave through regular working hours, it would instead allow workers and employers to trade traditional time-and-a-half pay for overtime hours for compensatory time off.
Anytime the Republicans offer the workers “a deal” check to see that all of your fingers are still attached. Every study that has ever been done shows that when workers are paid overtime it always shows up in their paycheck. But everytime they are offered “compensatory time off” workers rarely get to take the time off. Does anyone know of a study that doesn’t say that? The Republicans, our rich Capitalist friends, are always looking for the cheapest way to do business in order to increase their profits. Whenever they come up with a solution it’ll be good (profitable) for them and will cost us money. Don’t you wish Obama would make his decisions based on that fact? Then again he’s a Capitalist so he’s being true to form.
There are lots of studies out there that show employers don’t pay overtime. Walmart is a primary offender. The enforcement of the FLSA has been cut to nothing, just like OSHA. The State Labor Departments are a joke.
Walmart doesn’t pay overtime wages? That’s very hard to believe. These studies that you point to that show that employers don’t pay overtime, could you site one or more of them by title please?
JRC has been doing that comp time shit for years. And comp time isn’t paid at time and a half, so you are getting ripped off twice.
May Day gift from our Galtian overlords. Just one more brilliant way to make capitalism more efficient by lubricating the labor markets. Now that you’re all lubed up, bend over.
Who is it that we have to hand it to, susie? Say again? REPUBLICANS?