Overtime pay is killing the American work ethic, according to the talking heads on Fox News. They think that if people just work harder, they’ll get their due. To them, worker protections like overtime pay laws undermine people’s desire to work harder for extra pay.
This is in response to President Obama’s executive order to the Department of Labor to revise the overtime pay law in the Fair Labor Standards Act. The purpose, he said, is to expand overtime pay to millions more Americans, who currently aren’t getting paid fairly for the amount of work that they do.
Read about it here, you lazy asses.