Donald Trump on Sunday admitted that he refused to pay his workers overtime, leading to a massive pushback. Trump, who made a similar comment recently about how he "hated" paying overtime to his employees, went even further over the weekend at a rally in Pennsylvania. At that same rally, the for...
    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
      66·
      3 months ago

      Plus more scattered throughout. Here’s just some of the obvious quotes about it

      DOL should clarify that a home office is not subject to OSHA regulations and that time to set up a home office is not compensable time or eligible for overtime calculations

      They want to remove overtime pay for work from home

      Congress should amend the NLRA to authorize collective bargaining to treat national employment laws and regulations as negotiable defaults. For example, this reform would allow a union to bless a relaxed overtime trigger (e.g., 45 hours a week, or 80 hours over two weeks)

      Allowing labor laws to be negotiable is going to be used by companies to given worse labor contracts to unions and is a blatant attempt to weaken their power

      Here’s a decent article that includes some of the more conniving ways Project 2025 wants to gut overtime

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        3 months ago

        You’d think Unions would just reject that bullshit, but then Teamsters is … probably fully on board.

        • chillinit@lemmynsfw.com
          8·
          3 months ago

          The Teamsters, who’re unabashably using bureaucratic obstruction and strict compliance to refuse to cross picket lines.