This has to still be seen as a loss for Bush. Those who would have lost their overtime but won't now have to understand that it was the Democrats who made it so. Also that if Bush gets a second term, espcially since he won't be worried about re-election there will be renewed attempts to pillage the middle class.

How come nobody ever mentions the low-wage workers affected by this - retail supervisors and managers, who probably outnumber all the other categories combined? The original proposal extended the executive exemption to mere supervisors, and the revised version still abandons the "50%" duties test for executive employees.

I suppose it would be a waste of time to point out that none of these proposals would "deny overtime" to a single person; the proposals would just take people out of the category where the government forces their employers to give them overtime.

Note further that being "Exempt" is not the unalloyed evil critics are trying to claim it is; it means that employers cannot deduct pay for missed time. Whereas the hourly employee can lose pay.

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