Bring Back the 40-hour work week (March 2012)

Re:Bring Back the 40-hour work week (March 2012) by eli_gottlieb on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @08:03PM (#4781491)

On a technical legal note, U.S. overtime laws have long since institutionalized the 40-hour week for non-exempt (generally lower skilled) employees and that remains the overwhelming norm in the economy. In that sense, there is no need to "bring back" the 40-hour week. It never went away.

Except there are now so many exemptions that most of the white-collar working population is "salaried-exempt", and basically subject to no labor protections at all.

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Re:Bring Back the 40-hour work week (March 2012) by tptacek on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @09:06PM (#4781688)

That's really not true. It's very easy to stumble into a credible claim from an employee that they've been reclassified as overtime-eligible. One easy way to do it is to discipline a team member, or the whole team, by docking pay for coming in late.

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