What is a sliding wage scale?

Answer 1

The sliding scale wage is a legal way for employers to screw their employee's should be illegal. The way it works is to not only take away your over time or time and a half but it also makes you make less per hour after you get to your 40 hour work week. In other words a after a normal 40 hours of work you should get time and a half for your effort, but with sliding scale you make less per hour than your regular pay and it continues to drop every ten hours over 40. For example if you make 20 dollars per hour you should keep that amount until 40 hours. After the 40 hours and up to 50 you might make 13 dollars an hour. After that up to 60 hours you might make 7 dollars an hour and so on. That's right ,take it from someone who lives in Louisiana and is on this very pay scale.