Re: Press "1" for English

["Doug" <not@xxxxxxxx>]

Pressing "1" didn't help me with this one, perhaps it should be Press "1"
for plain English.

Doug


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"Roland Moore" <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:kd21h.33160$ta3.7352@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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
> news:7941201a744d3e523ac8b4d2c87fbaa7@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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
>>
>>
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