Thanks, Democrats! Kay Hagan (D - N.C.) has proposed legislation exempting nearly all IT workers from overtime pay. (This in an industry notorious for demanding outrageous hours from workers).
She's even gotten herself another Dem co-signer, Michael Bennet (Colorado), as well as two Republican signers, Mike Enzi (Wy.) and Johnny Isakson (Ga.). That makes it all nice and bi-partisan-y.
This proposed legislation is backed, and was probably written, by the big IT companies who have found themselves in recent years on the wrong end of a few class action suits demanding overtime pay for non-exempt employees. These companies are also aggressively pursuing wage suppression for all the US jobs that they've been unable to offshore. Tactics include restricting paid overtime, dumping existing employees and hiring new ones at downgraded pay and benefits, and using mandatory unpaid furloughs.
IT companies are notorious for requiring long work, sometimes at odd hours, and it's not unheard of for these companies to expect an employee to be available round the clock when they have something big happening. Can you imagine working an 18 hour day and only being paid for 8 hours? Then doing it again, and again for days in a row?
How can someone even call themselves a Democrat when they come up with garbage like this?