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Willie Hefner: “as someone who is not a businessman, and I have not been inundated with requests on this, but if I am working 30 or 40…”

On the recordJuly 26, 1996
as someone who is not a businessman, and I have not been inundated with requests on this, but if I am working 30 or 40 people in my plant, and they were trying to make a living on, in a lot of cases, very low wages and the employer says, ``Hey, we've got a deal here for you. You can either get overtime or you can get comp time, and I would suggest that comp time might be better for you,'' and if the guy does not really understand what is happening to him, he is going to pretty much have a tendency to go along with the employer. Would that be a logical conclusion?
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Willie Hefner
Democratic · North Carolina
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of comp time versus overtime for low-wage workers.

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