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Originally Posted by DIYPatriot

I noticed that, too. What a great spin on un-employment. They can now say, "Under our plan, mothers AND fathers get more time at home than they've ever had under any other administration. In fact, they'll have as much time as they can tolerate. Now, how they afford that home and feed their family is up to the rest of you."

Work harder, America. Millions addicted to welfare depend on you.

Originally Posted by DIYPatriot

Further increasing the number of people addicted to "free" phones and other programs, thus increasing the number of people who'll vote for them and keep them in office.

How do you go from the information in the OP to your editorial comments about welfare dependency?

Those most familiar with the new rule say that it most affects the middle class, and that the rule will lead to increased under employment, not unemployment.

Business groups lobbied hard against the new rules, claiming they would lead employers to cut back on hours, and force workers to start tracking their time as hourly employees. What the rules will undoubtedly do is give many employers a hard choice: Either limit workers’ hours to 40 per week so they don’t incur the time-and-a-half premium, or start paying workers more for the extra time they work.

In a statement Tuesday, the National Retail Federation, a trade group for retailers, called the reforms a “career killer.” “With the stroke of a pen, the Labor Department is demoting millions of workers,” the group said. “In the retail sector alone, hundreds of thousands of career professionals will lose their status as salaried employees and find themselves reclassified as hourly workers, depriving them of the workplace flexibility and other benefits they so highly-value.”