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Re: DOL 2016 regulation to mandate overtime pay for certain classes of employees working > 40 hr/wk If income is an indicator of where the pathway up lies, one of the inhibitors for those climbing up from the bottom is how those first tiers of low-level management and supervisory positions, though you're just beginning to earn more significant compensation, are also accompanied by serious increases in hours "on the job" and other effects upon an employee's quality-of-life. Some employers rely very heavily on value-added work from such employees, because they know their personal motives and ambitions will make them pay the price in terms of their personal - uncompensated - time. This means that a significant amount of worker-added value can be "stolen": families suffer the de facto loss of a family member with no consequent increase in benefits to the families such as improved child-care, or real family vacations, or better, more expensive food, and the wo...