Editorial: Working overtime / Labor Department's flawed plan:

In proposing the changes last spring, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao said she was adding 1.3 million low-wage workers to the category of people automatically eligible for overtime pay. That's a fine idea and probably overdue, since Congress hasn't changed that particular threshold since 1975.

But with less fanfare, the Labor Department proposed a second set of changes that could eliminate overtime pay for some 8 million workers, including licensed practical nurses, restaurant cooks and dozens of other jobs.

and under shrub's watch, cheap labor gets even cheaper, and millions of people lose the overtime pay that they count on to pay the bills. this is good for the cheap labor conservatives who are proposing this bill, but not good at all for the people who will be affected by it.