Thomas Kochan Quotations

Is it the employer who controls whether an employee gets to take comp time or overtime or the employee? ... When unions hear 'flexibility' they hear employers (not workers) get the flexibility to schedule the work.

Flexibility makes all the sense in the world (and Bush's proposal) has all the right-sounding words, ... will be strongly opposed.

There's no (way) to write one set of rules that's going to fit all circumstances, ... There are tradeoffs and not everybody is always happy.

Some changes to the overtime rules are needed, but the ones proposed don't reflect the nature of work today.

until we have a revision that reflects the way work is done today.

At least it closes the gap a little bit between firms that are providing something and those that aren't.