] Say you're a cook, or a nurse or the assistant manager of ] a store. You've worked more than 40 hours this week, so ] you're entitled to overtime pay, right? ] ] It's hardly that simple, and the Bush administration's ] proposed new rules on overtime pay raise all kinds of ] uncertainties about just who should be entitled to extra ] wages for extra work. ] ] The administration says its rules could cost 644,000 ] workers the right to extra wages. Labor unions and ] Democrats say the real number is at least 8 million and ] maybe even higher. ] ] The truth is, nobody's sure precisely how many workers ] will be affected, largely because it's unclear what ] employers would do with the increased flexibility ] provided by rules that are arcane and broadly worded. This adminstration really is all about screwing the working class, isn't it? |