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Paying people a living wage would be cheaper to society than building more prisons.
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Paying people a living wage would be cheaper to society than building more prisons.
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When I mentioned that time and a half for overtime had recently been cut, my friend who employs 500 people very quickly put me in my place and said that this was not so. He said that he has to pay everyone time and a half if they work overtime. Wondering how I could have been mistaken, when I got home I quickly Googled Bush administration cuts time and a half for overtime and brought up the following. You can get time and a half for overtime if you earn less than $23,660. a year. So from that my little hand computer tells me that my friend probably pays his employees less than $12 an hour --- and what you bet he takes care that nobody works overtime. But the vast majority of workers in our country, I read, make more than $23,660 and less than $100,000 a year. So they are the ones that got chopped. And whether they are entitled overtime pay after 40 hours a week depends on how their wor...
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