I have been looking at the many questions and replies in the Exempt, Non-Exempt threads. My question is, how do we go about getting a new law in place to govern employers on the maximum hours an employee must work? Truthfully, I have worked in manual and non-manual positions, and BOTH types of jobs are just as exhausting as the other. It shouldn't matter what the job duties are. There should be a point where the employee stops being taken advantage of. I know that the nest recourse is to just go and find another job; but this is not the best time anywhere to be jobless. It just upsets me that employers can basically do whatever they want if you are considered exempt and there is nothing an employee can do to protect themselves from being taken advantage of. When you work 60 hours a week it, most supervisors are making less than the people they are supervising..it is absurd. Is there anything we can do? Thank you for listening

You would have to write your elected government officials.