Overtime threatened AGAIN!!

You can't turn your back on those folks in Washington for a minute without them trying to sneak something past. It's only been a few weeks since the Republicans in Congress withdrew their bill to allow employers to substitute compensatory time off for overtime pay, because they realized they didn't have enough votes.

But hey, who needs votes when you can accomplish the same thing, and much more quietly, with changes to federal regulations? The Department of Labor is about to implement regulatory changes that would cause 8 million workers to lose the right to overtime pay. This is not just some blogger telling you this (though this particular blogger maintains the same exacting journalistic standards she always has no matter whom she's writing for); here it is on CNN. So now we have to write our elected representatives again. It's been almost a week since I wrote to mine; I'm sure they're eager to hear from me again. If the CNN piece isn't enough, here are the current Google News search results on the word "overtime" (Note: the results will be different for those who are reading this more than a day or so after the original publication date.) I'm off to harangue some politicians. If you want to do the same, the Working Families E-activist Network makes it easy to do so right here.

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