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Tag: Joe Ammons
Channel 19
Truckers are classified as ‘unskilled labor’? Nope
A new video from TruckerNation effectively debunks this oft-repeated myth. What it doesn’t do is highlight what’s typically happened in my own experience when those invoking the myth are asked for some clarification — what follows, often, is an invocation of the reality of the exemption from overtime-pay protections for DOT-regulated motor carrier employee drivers.
December 19, 2018
Channel 19
An hourly future for driver pay?
There’s evidence that legal and other pressures could lead to more prevalence for a time-based pay model, particularly for company drivers. Should a state-to-state patchwork of enforceable labor laws be the way forward?
February 9, 2016
Overdrive Radio
Audio: Rich Wilson at MCSAC — ‘We need to hear more from drivers’
Though any FLSA reform wouldn’t apply directly to owner-operators, some have made the argument that improved pay conditions for company drivers and corresponding rate-dynamics changes would filter positively throughout the industry.
February 15, 2014
Business
Attention to detention: Solutions to the problem of uncompensated time, part 1
Everyone in the supply chain benefits from uncompensated detention time – except the driver. Some see a shift toward hourly pay as a solution; other solutions are explored in this part 1 of a two-part series on detention.
October 24, 2013
Channel 19
California domestic workers and truck drivers; $1,500 for a few words
Domestic workers making state-by-state inroads on their own FLSA exemption (similar to company drivers’) from the possibility of overtime pay — meanwhile, a friendly, familiar, potentially lucrative contest.
July 11, 2013
Voices
Views: Fair-labor exemption petition, truck driver as DOT secretary
Owner-operator Joe Ammons launches his petition to the DOT secretary to disallow the trucking exemption from provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
May 1, 2013
Channel 19
Reader: Repeal FLSA trucking exemption
The following comes by way of owner-operator Joe Ammons, who is looking for assistance with a petition for the U.S. Secretary of Transportation (or Congress) to repeal the trucking exemption to the Fair Labor Standards Act, which among other things specifies the 40-hour workweek and 8-hour day for employees of companies in other industries — […]
July 24, 2012
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