Do republicans hate overtime pay?

In a cons mind is overtime pay "socialist" and "un-American?" they detest the min wage, but I wonder how much they detest being required to pay time and a half for any work over 40 hours.

 

republicans are wage earners too.

so, no

 

If its the wages of a socialist union worker getting paid by our tax dollars at the time and a half and often double time rates....you bet yer sweet bippy we detest it.

 

I detest the government telling people what they can or cannot agree on in a contract.

The market should decide what wages are, just like it does for prices. Wages are nothing more than a price for labor.

Many more people would be hired in the country if small business could do so without worrying about violating some regulation about how much they had to pay.

 

Spoken from a right wing corporate cowboy who thinks straight salary is wonderful. Minimal pay....maximum hours....many for FREE. I despise the corporate right, and hope they all die of a painful cancer at a very young age, then the state confiscates their "earnings" and all stolen wealth. Just a dream....but a good one.

 

You don't say?? So, how many perspective employees should 50 dollars an hour buy, in your opinion?? 10? 20? Nasty right wing garbage...

 

That's right, and this is where the minimum wage act or bill should be destroyed immediately. Who would stop congress from voting on a bill that would raise the minimum wage to say $30 or $40 dollars an hour? Government needs to get their sorry asses out of our business and out of our struggling economy, for their the ones that put us in this mess in the first place via fanny, freddy and FRANK.

 

Here, we can take a look at how people who work hourly vs those that work on salary.

I work salary. I want to get my job done before the weekend, or faster so I can leave when I have completed my task and not give up any free time.

Most people I work around work hourly. They purposly stop working before they complete the job so they can come in on Saturday and get paid overtime for putting a few more screws in an panel.

So, is it better to have salary vs hourly? In production fields, salary is the way to go. In service fields where you are actually dealing with the customer who walks in looking for your help 30 mins before the end of your shift, hourly or commission is the best.

 

Like I said in my OP, the market should decide.

It depends on what you do.

If you clean bathrooms, your labor may will not be as valuable as that of someone who repairs the broken toilet.

That is not "right wing garbage", that is simple logic.

 

Labor is a product. Not only is the government regulating employers, it is directly infringing on the rights of a worker who may prefer to work for a lower price than he is legally allowed to take. This essentially puts him out of work in the case where the government mandated wage can not be justified by the market.

 

Ahh yes...and a CEO deserves at least 500 times that number, in your opinion, I'm sure. Let me clean a CEO's toilet...once he sits down, he'll wish he didn't, I assure you.

 

How much can one person whine is the question. They elect the worst president in history, then run around crying about Republicans. *boo hoo*

Republicans love overtime pay by generous non-union employers. However, we also love comp time off in lieu of pay.

Main thing is... most Republicans work. Most Democrats sit on their duffs and whine. It's a fact, jack.

 

Maybe that kind of pettiness is why you're a toilet cleaner and not a CEO.

 

I am not in that line of work, so I really couldn't say what a CEO is worth.

You should try to calm down a little. You aren't getting anywhere with your opposition by acting crazy.

 

If the CEO makes sure several thousand people still have a job tomorrow and the investors of the company get a return for their money, yes he does. Good thing the CEO also pays his fair share of taxes, about 2000% more than the janitors...assuming the janitors pay taxes.

 

Look, this guy has been acting crazy from the git go. Delusional comes to mind.

 

I come here looking for honest debate.

I think he comes here to blast the 'evil republicans'.

 

By and large, leftists who start and chime in on threads like this...
consider laboring within a free, capitalist economic system slavery.

Ironically, they're blind to the fact that laboring under all other "ists" and "isms" is enslavement to the authoritarian dictates of armed, unyielding government statists.

 

Yeah, nobody is saying capitalism is perfect, but it sure is a helluva lot better than the alternatives.

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People need to learn the difference between capitalism and corporatism.

 

Some who post here have never been wage earners but they're on the left. I think perhaps they're upset that they don't get overtime for not working.

 

So I take it the original poster has never worked a job where they struggled to get hours because the company made sure no one hit overtime to save on labor.

Any of the progressives here ever held a real job?

 

You just killed the thread with this question.

Obviously the OP has never had a real job or is ignorant of anything related to OT and how it is figured.

 

'Curiously', leftists...generally, the most ardent and vocal critics of "corporatism"....
are the first to dissemble, spin, defend, or remain utterly mute over blatant crony corporatist efforts to satisfy their environmental agenda.

Which is yet another glaring example of progressive leftist duplicity and disingenuousness on display.

 

I'll address this issue as it applies to my 'trade'. I'm a graphic designer (was), retired now. I'll categorically state that the vast majority of design firms are run by liberals. (artsy stuff usually is) If you look at the majority of positions being offered today, in the field of graphic design (few at best) are as 'intern jobs' with a sliver of a chance of turning into a full time hire. People with the required skillsets and a degree in design that were making $40+per hour prior to the 'recession' are working for free and/if, when hired full time are lucky to make more than $13 per hour. Designers that are 'on staff' at one of those 'corporate cowboy' places continue to make a living wage. So much for the liberals bleeding hearts for the working stiffs of the world.

 

Maybe they should unionize...