 ccrp poll overtime payment for managers supervisors   new poll overview president obama plans to use his executive authorities to require american businesses to pay millions of employees overtime pay he will direct the labor department to modify regulations governing the types of employees and businesses that can classify people as executive or professional under current rules employers must provide overtime to salaried workers making less than 455 per week under the president rsquo s executive order some fast food shift supervisors or office workers who had been denied overtime pay would now be eligible employees would also be required to perform a minimum percentage of executive work to qualify for the socalled white collar exemption narrowing a loophole that allowed companies to exempt lowlevel retail managers from overtime pay the proposed regulations will be subject to public comment before they are approved and are likely to see strong opposition from republican lawmakers and business lobbyists obama is able to change the law under regulatory authority provided in the 1938 fair labor standards act new poll question are you in favor of president obama signing an executive order to change the overtime rules for managers supervisors yes no undecided to vote in this poll click on this link are you in favor of president obama signing an executive order to change the overtime rules for managers supervisors   to enter your comments click on add new comment after you vote previous poll question should michigan voters pass an initiative petition to make the michigan legislature parttime yes 75 no 21 undecided 4 two comments were made on this poll question comment 1 part time legislature regulatory reform the greater question is where are the checks and balances michigan has a massive amount of over lap of local state and federal government we need to address regulatory reform too people need to read the initiatives that are set into public policy such as the international property maintainance code agenda 21 sustainable development 1994 smart meter technology the details of the ndaa why do we need an international code for any michigan unit of government answer because we have restructured government to be top down heavy all local units now apply for grant funding if you comply you get funded people at every level of government must read the details of how the state and federal government manipulate local units if they want there is to much go along to get along mentality with out people actually reading the administrative rules and details of legislation lets pass the bill first so we can see what it does we must return to prudentb reasoning and sound judgement the good old boy politics must stop everyone knows that very few prople read the bills philip nancy bareham comment 2 part time legislature with a part time legislature and fewer staff what will be the impact of lobbyists and lobbyist lawyers who are already leading them by the nose   all emails addresses  