So, it turns out after I wrote last night's article on Trump possibly repealing some overtime regulations, I found out a federal judge put an injunction on it being implemented. The plaintiff was the state of Nevada, which argued it bypassed procedure through which states normally give pay raises, and caused irreparable harm.
What I want to know is even if the state's concerns are legitimate, and they might be because states can't just update their budgets at any moment and normally have a yearly budget they can't just change on a whim, why this stopped the regulation from taking effect in general? Millions of retail and food service workers likely would have benefitted from this, since management positions in these professions normally involve long work weeks for little pay. Essentially the law would have forced businesses to pay their workers better or give them better work life balance, which I see as a positive. But none of that, because the state of Nevada got an injunction imposed nationwide by filing a suit in court. This is why we can't have nice things. Even if accommodations would need to be made to state governments, why oppose the entire regulation? This country is so anti labor it's pathetic. Whatever happened to the FDR days in which any business that didn't adequately pay their workers had no right to exist? We should bring that back. And while yes, businesses will whine about it, they whine about everything and if they had their way would probably bring back slavery or at least gilded age conditions. These regulations are intended to benefit the worker and have a positive benefit on their life, even if they make businesses have to pay people more and treat them like human beings. Ugh, I'm just, frustrated by this.
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