Cop rakes in $180K in overtime pay

via HUFFPOST:

nd you thought your job perks were cushy.

The New York Post reports Sgt. Edwin Rivera of the Port Authority Police Department is on track to earn more overtime pay this year than any one of the bi-state public agency’s more than 7,300 full-time employees.

According to SeeThroughNY, a government transparency site, Rivera, a 16-year veteran who supervises police that patrol the PATH trains, earned $166,035 in overtime last year. That amount that eclipsed his base [...]

WTF!!! Senate Introduces Bill To Block Home Health Workers From Making Minimum

The Obama administration last year introduced a rule that would extend minimum wage protections to home health workers who, up to that point, had received no guarantee of a liveable wage or fair overtime pay. But Senate Republicans are attempting to block the rule from going into effect.

 

Law360, New York (June 11, 2012, 8:24 PM ET) — A group of Republican senators on Thursday introduced legislation aimed at blocking the Obama administration’s controversial [...]

Financial Giants Put New York City Cops On Their Payroll

by PAM MARTENS

Videos are springing up across the internet showing uniformed members of the New York Police Department in white shirts (as opposed to the typical NYPD blue uniforms) pepper spraying and brutalizing peaceful, nonthreatening protestors attempting to take part in the Occupy Wall Street marches.  Corporate media are reporting that these white shirts are police supervisors as opposed to rank and file.  Recently discovered [...]

Pending Legislation in California: “The Law to Eliminate Employment of Babysitters in the State”

From California State Senator Doug LaMalfa (R-4th District):
“How will California parents react when they find out they will be expected to provide workers’ compensation benefits, rest and meal breaks, and paid vacation time for…babysitters? Dinner and a movie night may soon become much more complicated.

California Assembly Bill 889 will require these protections for all “domestic employees,” including nannies, housekeepers and caregivers. The bill has [...]