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To: i-node who wrote (746664)	10/14/2013 6:27:30 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Recommended By i-node Respond to of 1570330

In addition to the incentive for people to get less hours (to make them part time), it also might cause some employers to push some employees to work more hours. The more productive of their workers they might want to keep at full time, and then give OT. Sure they have to pay time and a half for OT, but the compensation doesn't go up 50% per marginal hour since the benefits don't go up with the extra hours, and with expensive insurance being a required benefit it might make sense for having a few of the more productive employees work more hours (while reducing the hours of the less productive employees, or maybe just firing them). This is esp. true if the more productive workers are exempt and don't have to get over time, or if they are near enough to making exempt level compensation, that they can get a raise to enough where they will be exempt, but still make less then their old rates with OT.