The government is getting very good at crafting policies for working people that make [...] a playing field that has tilted so far toward the company in the past 30 years that it's practically standing pure vertical at this point.
Take the notion, proposed by Congress, to apply to the private sector the choice available to public sector workers of choosing between overtime pay and comp time.
Judith Lichtman, senior adviser to the National Partnership for Women and Families, contends the measure would open the door for employers to pressure workers into taking compensatory time off instead of overtime pay. The program was created in the public sector in 1985 to save federal, state and local governments money, not to give workers greater flexibility, Lichtman said.[...]
As a matter of fact, those of us who are “exempt” employees where I work are given no choice at all. We are only permitted comp time.The more you look at it, the more this appears to be another way not to pay people what they're worth.
Charlie Pierce
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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