Re: Press "1" for English

["Roland Moore" <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Being in the middle of a Department of Labor audit at the moment means that
my attention has been focused on some of these issues posted here. Rather
than guess about salary issues it is easy to go to the DOL web site and see
the whole video from Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao. It is clear that
folks making less than $23,660 per year or $455.00 per week are "guaranteed"
overtime protection.
http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/whd/fairpay/main.htm
There are other rules that apply to folks making less than that amount to
see if they past the "salary" test. Unless you know his pay structure I
don't think you can make a blanket statement about what his liability might
be if any. There may be conflicting state laws to contend with as well.
Unless you are willing to try and parse out a statement like the one below
off the same site I wouldn't even pretend to know what "findings" might be
made.

 Multiple regression analysis is a statistical tool for understanding the
relationship between two or more variables. Multiple regression involves a
variable to be explained - called the dependent variable - and additional
explanatory variables that are thought to produce or be associated with
changes in the dependent variable. For example, a multiple regression
analysis might estimate the effect of the number of years of work on salary.
Salary would be the dependent variable to be explained; years of experience
would be the explanatory variable. Multiple regression analysis is sometimes
well suited to the analysis of data about competing theories in which there
are several possible explanations for the relationship among a number of
explanatory variables. Multiple regression typically uses a single dependent
variable and several explanatory variables to assess the statistical data
pertinent to these theories. In a case alleging sex discrimination in
salaries, for example, a multiple regression analysis would examine not only
sex, but also other explanatory variables of interest, such as education and
experience. The employer-defendant might use multiple regression to argue
that salary is a function of the employee's education and experience, and
the employee-plaintiff might argue that salary is also a function of the
individual's sex.

All of this to protect the little guy? I think this is just another
federally sponsored attorney enrichment program.


"Nomen Nescio" <nobody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Everywhere Man said:
>
>>Funny how you say survival of the fittest yet you're
>>bitching because the Mexicans are making it hard for you to survive.
>>Outbid them. Work harder than them. Give an employer a reason to choose
>>you. It's a free market society and you can't stand that your price has
>>been beat.
>
> Oh great.  First, the wetbacks invade our country.  Now, we're supposed to
> work cheaper than they do?  God bless the free enterprise system, where
> everybody enjoys really low prices because the workers get paid five bucks
> an hour.  Hell, that doesn't even pay for English lessons.
>
>>> Overtime is not a union rule, it's based on state law.  It's meant to
>>> keep tyrants like yourself from exploiting workers. <
>>
>>State law for hourly wage employees. I pay a salary and if they don't
>>like what I pay or where they work they have the right to vacate the
>>job.
>
> Oh, man, are you asking to get nailed to the cross.  You don't have the
> right to pay installers a salary.  Federal and state law says that type of
> employee is entitled to overtime pay.  Many big companies have been caught
> recently trying to claim their manual laborers are actually managers, and
> therefore exempt from overtime.  The penalties include back pay for all
> the
> hours you didn't pay them for, plus the back payroll taxes you didn't pay
> on those wages.  Plus penalties and interest, of course.
>
>>He will not be attending college and YES he will sweep floors. College
>>is for people who want to hide from reality. He will learn what it
>>takes to make it in this world. He will break his ass just like his
>>father does on a daily basis so he doesn't turn out to be a half-wit or
>>nimrod that has trouble holding a job and blames Mexican labor and
>>everyone else but himself for it.
>
> After which, he'll inherit Daddy's business, and live happily ever after.
>
>>What you expect your dad to do if he had no other means, Graham? Would
>>he cross the border to feed you or let you starve to death so he
>>doesn't offend ignorant people?
>
> I don't blame the wetbacks for coming here.  If I were a Mexican, I'd be a
> wetback, too.  I blame us for letting them in.
>
> The real problem is greedy bastards who are willing to hire the cheapest
> non-speaking aliens they can find, at the lowest wages they can pay, all
> to
> put a few extra dollars in their own pockets.  Take care of the Americans
> first!  Then, and only then, do you start importing wetbacks.
>
> Look at the long-term consequences of illegal immigration from Mexico.  We
> get cheap labor now, and fruit prices remain low.  But in the long run, we
> are importing a bunch of poor, unskilled people, who breed like rabbits.
> We will eventually become a third world country.  This is not about
> accepting a relatively small number of skilled immigrants who want to
> assimilate into our society.  This is about being invaded by an army of
> the
> poor, whose children automatically become citizens.  America is changing,
> folks, and it won't be for the better.
>
> - badenov
>
>
>