Cont: The Biden Presidency (3)

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Lol speak of the devil:

U.S. Circuit Court Directs U.S. Marshals to Take Haven Salon + Spa Corporate Officials into Custody for Refusing to Comply with Board’s and Court’s Orders
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NLRB locking up bosses for refusing to comply with their rulings to reinstate an unlawfully fired employee

In 2021, the Board found that Haven Salon + Spa violated the National Labor Relations Act (the Act) when it discharged an employee for raising concerns about the adequacy of the company’s COVID-19 safety protocols during the height of the pandemic. In raising those concerns, the employee had engaged in protected concerted activity within the meaning of the Act. The Board’s order required Haven Salon + Spa to offer the employee reinstatement, expunge references to the discharge from its files, provide records relevant to calculating backpay to the Board, post a notice of employee rights at its facility, and file a certificate of compliance with the Board’s Region 18 office in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Court enforced the Board’s order later that year.

After Haven Salon + Spa failed to fully comply with the Court-enforced order, the Board filed a motion to hold Haven Salon + Spa in contempt, which the Court granted in February 2023. The Court’s contempt order imposed escalating daily fines on Haven that could be forgiven in full if it complied with the Board’s order within a week’s time.
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https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/us-circuit-court-directs-us-marshals-to-take-haven-salon-spa-corporate

Biden's NLRB not screwing around, you love to see it.
 
On another labor note -

Biden Administration Seeks to Expand Overtime Pay to Millions of U.S Workers

If you earn less than $55,000 a year and work more than 40 hours a week, you could be eligible for time and a half.

Currently, workers who earn more than $35,568 annually are not eligible for overtime. An estimated 15% of full-time salaried workers qualified for overtime in 2022, down from more than 60% of full-time salaried workers in 1975. The new eligibility rule could make 3.6 million more U.S. workers eligible for overtime pay, according to the administration. Overtime is defined by the Fair Labor Standards Act as 1.5 times one’s hourly pay rate after working more than 40 hours per week.
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Aridas said:
On another labor note -

Biden Administration Seeks to Expand Overtime Pay to Millions of U.S Workers

If you earn less than $55,000 a year and work more than 40 hours a week, you could be eligible for time and a half.
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To clarify for our international readers, hourly workers already always qualify for overtime, regardless of their wage. However, some jobs can be considered "salaried", where workers are paid a flat wage regardless of how many hours they work.

There's supposed to be all kinds of restrictions on this to prevent abuse. Salary jobs are meant to be for white collar professional jobs, like managerial or administrative jobs that might have responsibilities that fall outside the normal hourly schedule. Your average CEO, for example, isn't punching a clock. They just get paid their flat salary.

Obviously this is not the case if so many workers making so little are being considered "salaried" positions. Unscrupulous employers will categorize ordinary, often low hourly wage work as "salary exempt" in order to screw people out of overtime pay they are entitled to (congrats, you're a "manager" now). Outright misclassification is common (also true for abuse of "independent contractors"), and this change in the law would put a higher minimum salary threshold which should help eliminate the most egregious abusers of such schemes. A job making less than 55k a year is not in the spirit of a salary exemption, so this firm threshold removes all ambiguity that is used to screw over workers.
 
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Recalling that Biden's incremental, centrist response to the call for single payer health care in this country was to propose lowering the Medicare enrollment age from 65 to 60.

Has anything ever happened with that? Seems to be an issue that has totally disappeared off the back burner.
 
TurkeysGhost said:
Recalling that Biden's incremental, centrist response to the call for single payer health care in this country was to propose lowering the Medicare enrollment age from 65 to 60.

Has anything ever happened with that? Seems to be an issue that has totally disappeared off the back burner.
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Just keep tearing Biden down for not being enough to the left for you. Great way to guarantee Another Trump Presidency.
 
One of the saddest signs of a failed/failing party or campaign is when the response to seeing somebody accurately note their real-world actions (or inactions) is to call it "tearing them down" and the best "defense" they can muster (against the viscious bloodthirsty assault of... admitting reality...) is "but the other one's worse!".

A party or campaign with any life left in it would be trying to win, and that would mean giving the voters something to vote for instead of just whining & crying at the voters for not supporting them enough already.
 
TurkeysGhost said:
Recalling that Biden's incremental, centrist response to the call for single payer health care in this country was to propose lowering the Medicare enrollment age from 65 to 60.

Has anything ever happened with that? Seems to be an issue that has totally disappeared off the back burner.
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Blame Sinema, Manchin and inflation.

The combination of those three things prevented Biden from doing lots of big stuff.
 
Saudi-Israel peace deal with major progress on the Palestine front would be a great asset to biden's reelection campaign.
 
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TurkeysGhost said:
Recalling that Biden's incremental, centrist response to the call for single payer health care in this country was to propose lowering the Medicare enrollment age from 65 to 60.

Has anything ever happened with that? Seems to be an issue that has totally disappeared off the back burner.
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How is that 'centrist'? Sounds pretty progressive to me. And it's financially unfeasible anyway.
 
Stacyhs said:
How is that 'centrist'? Sounds pretty progressive to me. And it's financially unfeasible anyway.
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It only sounds that way to a US person...
(literally the only 'advanced' country in the world that doesn't have a publicly funded universal heath care system...)

And it seems we all can manage to do it financially even...
(indeed at a considerably lower total cost per capita, and with better end results...)

(Biden would be a center right candidate in most countries, very few of his policies are even close to 'center', none close to even mildly 'left')
 
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