Should there be a cap on hours worked per week?

[Indy Texas]

I'm not sure how you enforce this absent of making everyone clock in and out. (And that still wouldn't address people working from home, taking a work call while they're out, etc.)

I strongly agree with the Labor Department's decision to raise the salary cap for non-exempt (overtime eligible) employees. It is absurd that a fast food franchise can classify a $20,000/year shift supervisor as a "manager" so that they don't get a dime of overtime when they're covering people's shifts and spending extra time opening and closing the store.

The "culture" issues you see in high-end investment banks and consulting firms reflect a tension we have in our society. We talk about the importance of family values and demonize single mothers and absent fathers and divorce and wayward children, but we tacitly approve a workplace culture that makes "traditional" families impossible to maintain.

So on one hand you have Sheldon Adelson types who burn through a new wife every few years and whose children hate them, who relentlessly dedicate their lives to their work and reap enormous financial benefits. And yet they decry the breakdown of the traditional family. What is more of a threat to traditional marriage? Two women getting married? Or a husband who is never home when his wife is awake and who is sitting in his car on a conference call during his son's baseball game?

And on the other hand you have your archetypal middle class American family that did "settle" - the husband who married and had kids in his twenties and dutifully left work promptly at 5pm, ensuring that he would not be a candidate for management while the guys who were still at the office would be. And now he's 45 and complaining about how he can't get ahead and his house still isn't paid off and he can't afford to pay for his kids' college. And then he turns around and votes for a party that glorifies the men who are on Wife #3 while guys like him are "losers" who should have just worked harder.