Your Department of Labor at work

So the Department of Labor has a handy guide for employers to use to avoid paying overtime. One suggestion is to cut pay so that when the overtime is added in the worker is making what they did before.

Or in other words the Department of Labor is advocating more hours for less pay. Sounds fair doesn't it? The level with which the GOP is out of touch with the reality of everyday life is astonishing. People struggle to make it as it is, for a lot of low wage employees who are lucky enough not to work at Wal-Mart overtime is how they stay off welfare. Now the GOP is trying to screw them out of that too. And it ends up costing all of us, the workers who spend less time with their families for less money, and the rest of us when they're forced into assistance programs because they no longer have the income to support the families they never see (or at least until the GOP kills that too.) And trust me, employers will embrace this idea, they'll be like kids at Christmas thinking about free overtime.

I'd suggest increasing job training, but apparently the GOP has a different idea http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=22536