Overtime Pay
Starting today, paychecks could shrink for millions of workers across the country, as sweeping changes to the nation’s overtime pay rules take effect. The Bush administration has enacted new rules under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
According to the Bush administration and the Department of Labor, the new rules are all about fairness. According to the Economic Policy Institute, an independent, nonprofit think tank, it’s about longer hours and less pay.
Why is it whenever the Bush administration talks about “fairness”, it is always those in the middle class that are asked to sacrifice for it, while those at the top of the corporate world benefit from it?