Under current law, which has no income restriction, a worker earning $80,000 and paid $36 per hour in overtime for 20 hours a week would earn about $117,000. Under the new law, the worker would earn $80,000.
So you look at this and think.. hey, 80k isn't bad, why complain about an extra 40k missing when you're making 80k... but what does this do to the rest of the IT community that makes $40,000 barely enough to live on, the overtime not an extra boat payment, its actual living expenses.. not everybody in IT makes $80,000/year. In fact it is hard to get above $45,000 without years and years of experience. Taking someone that works OT to make $50,000 down to $40,000 is just ridiculous. Its hard enough to make a living in the IT industry. Screw the government and their laws.. the people need to tell them this is not alright.
now if you agree to take a salary pay with no OT that is one thing, but if it is salary with OT.. they cannot take away your OT
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Under current law, which has no income restriction, a worker earning $80,000 and paid $36 per hour in overtime for 20 hours a week would earn about $117,000. Under the new law, the worker would earn $80,000.
So you look at this and think.. hey, 80k isn't bad, why complain about an extra 40k missing when you're making 80k... but what does this do to the rest of the IT community that makes $40,000 barely enough to live on, the overtime not an extra boat payment, its actual living expenses.. not everybody in IT makes $80,000/year. In fact it is hard to get above $45,000 without years and years of experience. Taking someone that works OT to make $50,000 down to $40,000 is just ridiculous. Its hard enough to make a living in the IT industry. Screw the government and their laws.. the people need to tell them this is not alright.
now if you agree to take a salary pay with no OT that is one thing, but if it is salary with OT.. they cannot take away your OT