The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.
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If technology and communications can adapt to people's modern lifestyles, then why can't our labor laws follow suit? Private-sector businesses continue to live under an outdated federal mandate that says the only way to compensate for overtime is through cash wages.
So, Mr. President, what is wrong with the fair employment practice bill?
Instead of cutting waste, the Obama Administration is hurting workers. President Obama should stop protecting wasteful government spending.
I think the time has come when the American people understand that federal employees need to work an 8-hour day just like everybody else.
Obamacare rules and mandates are job-killers.
We have to get very militant with some of these employers to say there's no shortcuts, our people have a right to a fair day's wage for a fair day's pay, and we've got to get that done. And that's going to happen.
You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
Simply put, ObamaCare cost Americans jobs through uncertainty and now implementation threatens even more jobs. No wonder the majority of Americans continue to oppose it.
Republicans absolutely support equal pay for equal work.
You see, we capitalists will never actually ask you to work overtime. I don't even track your hours. I just make it clear that I trust you to get your job done in the time allotted. And then I hand you twice as much work as you can reasonably do in a 40-hour week.