Harkin, AFL-CIO, and Workers to Rally at DOL for Bush Admin to Repeal Overtime Pay Cut
Overtime Pay Regulations Take Effect on August 23rd
Senator
Tom Harkin (D-IA), along with AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney and
workers who will lose overtime protection under George W. Bush’s new
regulations, will hold a press conference outside of the U.S.
Department of Labor on August 23 at 12:00 p.m. calling on the Bush
Administration to repeal the recent overtime regulation that is
anything but worker and family friendly.
According
to independent analyses of the revisions to wage and hour regulations,
up to 6 million workers – registered nurses, law enforcement personnel,
team leaders, assistant managers at retail stores and fast food
restaurants, chefs, and others – could lose their overtime pay
protection. America’s workers are already struggling with job loss,
unaffordable health care, and disappearing retirement benefits. Now,
the Bush Administration will institute regulations that will immensely
weaken workers’ overtime pay protections. Harkin successfully passed an
amendment to the JOBS Act to block those portions of the new regulation
which take away overtime pay protections from those workers who
currently have them as a result of the job duties they perform. This
amendment now heads to a House-Senate conference.
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