The San Jose Police Officers' Association criticizes changes to overtime pay as damaging to investigative work, alleging that the city is using these measures as a negotiating tactic.
The Senate narrowly passed President Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" with a 50-50 vote, allowing for new tax write-offs, including income from tips and overtime pay.
If we remember this simple point, it is obvious how we can do better for workers than Trump's tax-free overtime. Rather than having taxpayers subsidize employers who make their workers put in long hours, we can simply increase the wage premium for overtime.
The Trump administration's tax cuts exempting overtime and tips have received praise but have simultaneously made it harder for many workers to actually earn those overtime wages.
In fact, astronauts on the ISS don't ever receive overtime, or extra pay on holidays and weekends, as spokesperson Jim Russell of the space agency's Space Operations Mission Directorate told the newspaper.
