“Congress should clarify that the “regular rate” for overtime pay is based on the salary paid rather than all benefits provided. This would enable employers to offer additional benefits to employees without fear that those benefits would dramatically increase overtime pay”
I don’t understand this one. I’ve never heard of anyone making OT on benefits.
It’s a rule the DoL issued in 2019 to “clarify” the prior FLSA regulations. I’ve also never heard of getting OT on benefits and I doubt there was any real confusion. Whether its good policy, I dunno. It’s plausible to me that including non-cash compensation in overtime would disincentive benefits in a way that left the worker worse off, but, ya know, maybe healthcare and retirement shouldn’t be contingent on one’s employer.
Anyway, this is the Heritage Foundation trying to convert that rule to a law.
from what that link says, it sounds like the rule was made mostly to get around employers saying “this part of your paycheck is a bonus, not a wage, so it’s exempt from the time and a half rule”
Ctrl+F any common policy issue or buzzword, and get ready for a wild ride! The whole document is a fever dream.
Today the Left is threatening the tax-exempt status of churches and charities that reject woke progressivism. They will soon turn to Christian schools and clubs with the same totalitarian intent.
Contemporary elites have even repurposed the worst ingredients of 1970s “radical chic” to build the totalitarian cult known today as “The Great Awokening.”
Only 6 mentions of totalitarian – are they even trying?
" in one highly influential sage-grouse monograph"
wiki - “On December 6, 2018, the government announced a plan to roll back protections for the sage grouse to open nine million acres of land to wind and solar farms, drilling, mining, and cornfields for the production of government mandated ethanol.”
This basically reads like what was carried out in Ukraine post-2014.
Perhaps Ukraine might eventually be viewed the same way Chile under Pinochet is viewed as a test prior to rolling out neoliberalism.
