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Barbara Boxer: “If it was such a foregone conclusion that represented employees could negotiate and maintain overtime protections absent…”

On the recordMarch 23, 2004
If it was such a foregone conclusion that represented employees could negotiate and maintain overtime protections absent statutory and regulatory requirements, the law and regulations would never have been made applicable to any workers under a collective bargaining agreement.
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Barbara Boxer
Democratic · California

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Discussing overtime protections for workers under collective bargaining agreements.

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