This is the Republicans idea of being "family friendly?" Providing new tools for employers to exploit low wage workers? As someone who has actually worked overtime, if I didn't get paid time and a half, I'd slit my throat. And, no, getting the odd Monday off, doesn't make up for the stress of working over 40 hours in a week.

I agree with this:

“Its major effect would be to hamstring workers -- likely increasing overtime hours for those who don't want them and cutting pay for those who do,” wrote Eileen Appelbaum, senior economist at the progressive Center for Economic Policy Research

It seems to me that a no overtime package is called a salaried position. So let's talk Minimum Salary.

How about all the cops out during the Boston Bombing. No overtime would have save millions, right?

But if they had flex time they could all take next week off...

The first step to solving a problem is to clearly understand the problem. The only problem Cantor sees is that employers are not making enough profit.

The only families Cantor is friendly to are the rich families. You know the ones that give him money.

Because the much wider gap between upper management compensation and the compensation for the people that actually do the work isn't wide enough for the GOP. Pathetic.

I know people who depend on some overtime to help them make ends meet. Vacation days are fine but most people in the lower income areas don't have money to go anywhere on vacation anyway and would just as soon work. There is a sense of loss when one is out for a week. The community of fellow workers seems to be something one misses when they are off. A day doesn't cut it either as not much one can do in a day and wasting time is usually not an option for most hard working individuals. Perhaps if the suggestion was that an hourly employee gets a choice between a day off or time and a half and let them decide what is best for them. If a company has so much overtime for its employees maybe they should consider hiring more people. Sometimes people want temporary work and could be employed to fill in during peak days saving the company by not having to pay the time and a half and temps don't get benefits and often work for less than the regular employees. That way we get more people working, get the job done, and save money in the process. All Cantor wants to do is cheat regular employees out of the pay they deserve for their hard work and the stress of working longer hours.

If you don't want to pay overtime, then don't make the employee work it, let those in mangement/uppermanagement salaried positions jump right in and work the unpaid overtime - they certainly make more than enough money in most companies and do quite a lot less work.

This ferret faced punk needs to be ousted from the government. Eric, how did your wife make out with the government money from her bank's bail out? Hypocrite of the highest order, Tom Delay junior.

Put that goddam jew where he belongs- in an oven.