Texas judge blocks Biden administration's overtime protection rule

How is it that a third world country Ike mine pays overtime pay to all employees who work beyond the standard 8 hour work day. 25% of the hourly rate is added to the hours of overtime, plus a night differential rate if you work past 11 pm. +30% if you have to do work during a holiday.

Not being paid for overtime work is very slavery to me.

The reasoning of the judge is because the companies will have to pay billions in OT pay. Fuck them.

What country? Do you offer political asylum to people fleeing dictatorial regimes?
- Well we currently have the son of the former dictator as a president so there's that.
- Sounds like the Philippines.
How? Your government is probably not as captured.
- It's been the law for 50 years.
We do get overtime pay, this rule was for a very specific segment of workers who were exempt. Being salaried and making under a certain amount. Hourly employees get time and a half for every hour past 40 in a week, federally.
- The salaried exception floor hasn't been raised in forever, it needs to go way up.

I hope everyone joined whatever gains unions had the last four years

B-b-b-but Democrats aren't aligned with the working class!

I mean this would only have applied to salaried employees earning $20/hr or less which I can't even imagine what type of field that covers since most hourly jobs earn more than that these days.
This is akin to the "pardoning marijuana possession convictions" thing where it didn't apply to a single person in federal custody and only benefitted 3,000 people (with past convictions) in the entire nation.
This is basically virtue signaling and/or table scraps for us peasants.
- But you don't actually know how many people this would have applied to... you just assume, right?
  Edit: It's right in the article: "The rule would have extended to approximately four million American workers, guaranteeing them overtime pay."
- And a judge even blocked that. What do we think would happen to more substantial changes?
- Not sure why you would expect the federal government to be able to do anything with state charges.
- In January, it was going to jump to a minimum salary of 59k to be exempt.
- If only this logic actually applied. Maybe they wouldn't make anti-trans laws in that shithole state?

If the US is not a third-world country, then why do they do so many third-world country things?

A bit more of a de-developing country
And no, I don't have a stutter
- Had a bit of an Elmer Fudd flashback 😂

Obviously a little late for this administration, but could the next liberal admin try beating them to the punch on this? Are there no liberal friendly judicial districts? Have one of those file a weak lawsuit to uphold the law. Then that could at least be referenced when they attack in a red area.

The problem is there aren't enough actual liberals left in the DNC. The majority of the DNC is more than happy to screw over workers to the benefit of corporations. What resistance they provide is mostly performative, as their real priorities are dictated by what the large corporate donors are paying for.
- Screwing over workers to the benefit of Corporations is what Liberals are for. You mean there's no leftist left in the DNC.
- No, the problem is there are too many liberals in the party and not enough leftists. Liberals love them some anti-worker pro-corporate welfare and other right-wing policies that only benefit the rich.
- Yeah, notice there isn't a McResistance this time around like there was with the performative pussy hats and shit.
You're assuming there will be elections again
The problem is SCOTUS. Anything reaching them is going to come down on the Republican side.

it's going back to trump's threshold too. if you were enjoying OT with a 37K salary, congratulations, you're exempt now

Imagine being a salaried employee and only earning $16.80 per hour, assuming 40 hours a week. I wonder what type of work this even covers as that's slightly above minimum wage here, and it requires you to work all those extra hours for free.
- about the whole "a work week is 40 hours" thing too...

It's always texas, it's never not texas, is texas just trying to become mississipi? Because it's very quickly headed there.

People file their cases in this district specifically because it has a bunch of conservative friendly judges.
- Florida man and Texas Judge are the dynamic duo we didn't really need.
I wish we could just kick Texas out at this point.

Best get used to it. It’s going to be tough for a while.

Of course protecting workers who needs that. /s

Haha. Sucks to be the Texas working class. Won’t get paid for overtime, wives dying from childbirth, lack of good health care, poor education.

Ya voted, la la la la la 🧏

this is a federal court in Texas, that means it's being blocked nationally.
- This is something I really don't get in the US. How is it that a judge in one state/area/circuit whatever can make a decision that affects the entire nation? Having a bunch of courts spread around the place that people can cherry pick from to get the result they want seems so arbitrary.
- Well, then It sucks everywherre woooooo
  Get what they vote for!
- Yes yes I get it.

For salaried workers.

Salary workers almost never get paid overtime and generally make more "per hour" than the standard hourly wage already anyway. Also, you literally cannot be forced to work more than 40 hrs a week when salaried. This is also the terms that are agreed to by both parties (usually by contract) before employment begins. Kind sounds to me like if you want to be a salaried employee AND make overtime, that you should negotiate that before beginning employment.

I'm not getting the argument here.

You definitely can be fired for not working more than 40 hours in any state with at-will employment. Or rather, you can be fired for no reason at all, and they don't need to say it was because of the hours.