Donald Trump on Sunday admitted that he refused to pay his workers overtime, leading to a massive pushback. Trump, who made a similar comment recently about how he "hated" paying overtime to his employees, went even further over the weekend at a rally in Pennsylvania. At that same rally, the for...
  • vortic@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I know that he does screw over employees, but how is that the case in this circumstance? He is sending workers home before they hit overtime and bringing in a different shift of workers. Every business does that. Every business attempts to minimize the amount of overtime that they pay. In fact, that’s the point of overtime laws, to disincentivize working employees too many hours.

    I’m not defending him as a person. I’m saying this is shitty journalism that just gives him something additional to point at when he says that the media lies about him. We shouldn’t be giving him that ammo.

    • just_another_person@lemmy.worldOP
      34·
      2 months ago

      The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, the national trade union center known as AFL-CIO, said in response, “This isn’t a gaffe and he didn’t just misspeak — Trump said this in Michigan on Friday and Pennsylvania today. Trump cut overtime for millions of Americans as President — and his Project 2025 agenda will do it again.”

      That says it all. It’s right there in the article. Now, if you’re saying its “totally legal, and totally cool” what he’s doing and admitting to, then that’s your own opinion. A fuck ton of other absolutely hate it and think it’s bullshit, which validates this reporting being out there.

      • vortic@lemmy.world
        7·
        2 months ago

        Again, let me preface this by saying that I do not like Trump and think that he is terrible for the country. I’m just saying that he says enough awful shit that we don’t need to twist the truth or lie.

        Okay, two things here. First, the statement that Trump “cut overtime for millions of Americans as President” has been rated as “Mostly False” by PolitiFact.

        PolitiFact ruling: Mostly False. When contacted for comment, the Harris-Walz campaign pointed to news articles showing that former President Barack Obama proposed to extend overtime pay eligibility to more workers, but a judge blocked it in November 2016, just before it was slated to take effect. The Trump administration did not challenge the judge’s ruling and instead set its own overtime rule, which extended overtime pay to millions fewer people than Obama’s rule would have done.

        The Obama rule was not in effect at the time Trump took office, so Trump’s administration did not cut an existing benefit.

        Second, that’s not even what this article is about. This is about him saying the following:

        I know a lot about overtime. I hated to give overtime. I hated it. I’d get … I shouldn’t say this … I’d get other people in. I wouldn’t pay. I hated it.

        So, what does he say there? He hated paying overtime so he would bring in new people to take over the work. He didn’t stiff them. He sent them home after working a full shift and brought in new people to take over.

        Now, he may have (probably did) stiff workers in other ways. This is not evidence of that.