Roby, M Rep

7. Alabama Rep. introduces bill to eliminate overtime payThis is nice. And just in time for the holiday season. Meet <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">U.S. Representative</a> [10] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Roby" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Martha Roby</a> [11], a.k.a. Cruella DeVille. While the Tea Partying 37-year-old is not fighting tooth and nail against people getting affordable healthcare, she’s coming up with ways to deprive employees and workers of their hard-won rights and protections.This week she introduced a resolution euphemistically called “Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013,″ which would endthe requirement of the Fair Labor Standards Act for employers to pay <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-and-a-half" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Time-and-a-Half</a> [12] to employees for every hour worked over 40 in one week. It’s called H.R. 1406, and here’s what the Congressional Budget Office has to say about it:<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> “H.R. 1406 would amend the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Labor_Standards_Act" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938</a> [13] to provide <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtime" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">compensatory time</a> [14] for employees in the private sector. In lieu of overtime pay, employees could receive compensatory time off at a rate not less than one and one-half hours for each hour of employment for which overtime pay would otherwise have been required. Such compensatory time could be provided only in accordance with a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_bargaining" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">collective bargaining</a> [15] agreement or with the consent of affected employees. The changes would be effective for five years after enactment of the bill.”</blockquote>Long story short: It’s another way for employers to exploit workers with long hours and less pay. Note the use of the word, “flexibility,” which, when used by conservatives always affords more “flexibility” to employers, not workers, flexibility to work people round the clock, say, without paying overtime. Kind of like “right to work,” which is, of course, code for “right to be exploited, worked to death and fired for no particular reason.”