| The first one = telling employers to be more responsible. If they can't afford overtime and its hurting them, then they should be paying salaries they can afford to pay. If people do not want those salaries, they can go elsewhere. It does not mean they can go below the fed minimum $5.15. At 40 hours a week that would be $10,712. Under the old plan, those people weren't guaranteed overtime.
There's where they confuse you and you are wrong. The FLSA requires ALL hours over 40 in a work week to be paid at 1-1/2 times the regular hourly rate unless you are considered exempt by the FLSA |