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Originally Posted by Rainger99
You say that if your children aren’t salaried enough for their efforts they would change jobs and do just fine.
Doesn’t that same rationale apply to the person working in a factory which runs about 100 degrees on a summer day, lifting product, running presses?
And to answer your question, my working conditions were not that bad. But I don't think the tax benefits for overtime are limited to workers with those conditions.
Many government employees get overtime. This includes transit workers, the post office, TSA, VA, CPB, and FEMA. Most of those jobs are hard to get. And the people that I know that work in those areas usually want overtime.
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Regarding your last paragraph, ALL Federal employees who work on the GS pay scale are actually hourly workers. Their annual pay is based on 40 hours per week, and it is illegal to require additional work without paying them overtime if they file for it. This even includes GS-15 white collar employees who are at the top of the Government pay scale. As an Inspector General, I handled several cases of this, and the department head was sometimes surprised that they could only require their top managers to work 40 hours per week. This is a huge difference from the private sector.