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Originally Posted by stevo
They represent me. I'm against raising minimum wage. I believe it should be done away with totally. The market should decide people's wages, period. I don't want the government telling me how much my business needs to be paying my employees.
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Rude personal comment removed. You were warned. Three day ban issued.
-lebell
The bill is not a minimum wage bill. It is an attempt to rollback overtime pat protections, which were instituted to lessen scheduling abuses of workers,
it is an attempt to override state laws concerning wages that tipped employees receive, and it is an attempt to eliminate penalties that employers pay when they operate unsafe workplaces. Do you advocate removing all
legislated protection of workers? IMO, that is not the action of legislators who represent the public, it is the intention and agenda of legislators who trade the trust ceded to them by the majority of the voters who elected them, in favor of contributions of money, and privelege and influence from the business lobby.
The 84 page Santorum senate bill would override state laws by prohibiting any
wage payments by employers to tipped employees who earn tip averages above the minimum hourly wage. In Nevada, for example, tis would amount to a legislated federally mandated $5.15 per hour REDUCTION in tipped employee's wages. The bill removes fines for employer workplace safety violations. The bill eliminates 40 hour maximum workweelds before overtime must be paid. This is anti-family because it permits employers to schedule longer workdays and work weeks before overtime pay is required by law.