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D.R. 01-11: DOL & UBS
Volume 1, Issue 11
CONTENTS — ART. 1. DOL NOPR… — ART. 2. PARTY LINE: UBS
Article 1
Department of Labor notice of proposed rulemaking could upset labor-management relations
By Antarah Crawley
WASHINGTON, DC — In September 2023, the Wage and Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor (DOL) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) to amend 29 CFR Part 541, to wit, Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales, and Computer Employees.
The Summary section of the proposed rulemaking reads:
In this proposal, the Department of Labor (Department) is updating and revising the regulations issued under the Fair Labor Standards Act implementing the exemptions from minimum wage and overtime pay requirements for executive, administrative, professional, outside sales, and computer employees. Significant proposed revisions include increasing the standard salary level to the 35th percentile of weekly earnings of full-time salaried workers in the lowest-wage Census Region (currently the South)—$1,059 per week ($55,068 annually for a full-year worker)—and increasing the highly compensated employee total annual compensation threshold to the annualized weekly earnings of the 85th percentile of full-time salaried workers nationally ($143,988). The Department is also proposing to add to the regulations an automatic updating mechanism that would allow for the timely and efficient updating of all the earnings thresholds.
Summary
This means that employees of covered employers who make less that $55,068 will no longer be exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLRA) minimum wage and overtime regulations as “white-collar” or executive, administrative, or professional (EAP) employees. The NOPR Executive Summary reads:
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA or Act) requires covered employers to pay employees a minimum wage and, for employees who work more than 40 hours in a week, overtime premium pay of at least 1.5 times the employee’s regular rate of pay. Section 13(a)(1) of the FLSA, which was included in the original Act in 1938, exempts from the minimum wage and overtime pay requirements “any employee employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity.” [1] The exemption is commonly referred to as the “white-collar” or executive, administrative, or professional (EAP) exemption. The statute delegates to the Secretary of Labor (Secretary) the authority to define and delimit the terms of the exemption. Since 1940, the regulations implementing the EAP exemption have generally required that each of the following three tests must be met: (1) the employee must be paid a predetermined and fixed salary that is not subject to reduction because of variations in the quality or quantity of work performed (the salary basis test); (2) the amount of salary paid must meet a minimum specified amount (the salary level test); and (3) the employee’s job duties must primarily involve executive, administrative, or professional duties as defined by the regulations (the duties test). The employer bears the burden of establishing the applicability of the exemption.[2] Job titles and job descriptions do not determine EAP exemption status, nor does merely paying an employee a salary.
Executive Summary
This proposed rulemaking is causing some employers to reclassify employees who have historically been salaried full-time employees (FTE) with “white collar” exemption to wage-hour employees.
These changes are agitating labor-management relations, creating sharper contradiction in the employer-employee dialectic (“struggle of opposites”). Some employers are electing not to raise the compensation of historically EAP employees above the 35th percentile of weekly earnings of full-time salaried workers in the lowest-wage Census Region, even if those employees live in the most expensive regions of the country.
The sharpening of this historical and materialist dialectic is resulting in a proportional increase in union activity and may very well catalyze the decentralized autonomous organization of the Office of the Plebian Tribunes as well as shore up the 1st Memorandum of the College of the Ancient Mystery.
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Article 2
Party Line re: Union Boss System
By Antarah Crawley
NACOTCHTANK, OD — These planks are hereby promulgated for acceptance into the party platform by the general membership of the Third Wave Antimasonic Party of the United States, from the Village of Nacotchtank-on-Potomac, Ouachita District, which sits on the river bank east of the federal city of Washington:
PLANK NO. 5
The Union Boss System (UBS) is the fractal organization of the regional Party Boss System (PBS) into industrial syndicates.
PLANK NO. 6
The official position of the party with respect to the organization of labor in general (unions) is favorable.
© MMXXIII BY NOVUS SYLLABUS L.L.C.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED WITHOUT PREJUDICE.
The Saint Nat Project
presents
The Canonization of Saint Nat (2020)
In his first portrayal of the Virginian revolutionary, the Reverend Nat Turner, Antarah Crawley delivers the revelation which Nat testified through his attorney at trial on the 5th of November, 1831. His testimony was read in open court, and when asked by the Court for any further explanation, his only spoken words were, “Was Christ not crucified.” Nat was convicted that same day and executed by the Commonwealth at Jerusalem on 11 November, 1831. By and through his performance, Crawley canonizes Nat a Saint in the tradition of Ordo Templi Novus Syllabus and dedicates the Temple N:. S:. in his beatified name. Produced and Directed by Antarah Crawley.
The Revelation of Christ to Saint Nat (2021)
In his second portrayal of the Reverend Saint Nat on the first anniversary of his canonization, Antarah Crawley evokes the religious fervor which inspired this martyr to undertake the insurrection in Southampton County, Virginia, pursuant to his self-education and the sighting of the annular solar eclipse of 12 February, 1831. Produced and Directed by Antarah Crawley.
Script of The Revelation of Christ to Saint Nat, or, The Gospel of Saint Nat
Originally transcribed by Thomas R. Gray, Esq.,
and edited for brevity by A. A. Crawley, Scribe,
O.T.N.S., Anacostia R.V., Al-Maghreb Al-Aqsa.
ברוך ה המבורך לעולם ועד
Baruch Adonai ham’vorach, l’olam va-ed
Praise be to G-d to whom all praise is due, world without end.
בָּרוּך אַתָּה ה’ אֱ-להֵינוּ מֶלֶך הָעוֹלָם
Baruch atta Ado-noy Elo-hai-nu Melech ha’olam
Blessed are you, Lord our G‑d, King of the universe.
Kedushah
בָּרוּךְ אָתָּה יְיָ הָאֵל הַקָּדוֹשׁ.
Baruch atta Ado-noy ha-el hak-kadosh
Blessed are You, Eternal God, the essence of holiness.
אַתָּה קָדוֹשׁ וְּקדוֹשִׁים בְּכָל יוֹם יְהַלְלוּךָ סֶּלָה
atta kadosh ukedushim bekhol yom yehalelukha selah
You are holy, and Your holy ones praise You every day, praising you forever;
v’kara zeh el zeh v’amar
and each one called to the other:
קָדוֹשׁ קָדוֹשׁ קָדוֹשׁ ה’ צְבָאוֹת מְלֹא כָל הָאָרֶץ כְּבוֹדוֹ
Kadosh Kadosh Kadosh Adonai Tz’vaot M’lo Khol Ha’aretz K’vodo
“Holy, Holy, Holy, The Lord of Hosts, The entire world is filled with His Glory.”
בָּרוּךְ כְּבוֹד ה’ מִמְּקוֹמוֹ
Baruch K’vod Adonai Mim’komo
“Blessed is the Glory of the Lord in Its Place”
יִמְלֹךְ ה’ לְעוֹלָם. אֱלֹהַיִךְ צִיּוֹן לְדֹר וָדֹר. הַלְלוּיָהּ
Yimloch Adonai L’Olam, Elohayich Tziyon L’dor Vador Hall’luyah
“The Lord shall reign forever, Your God, O Zion, from generation to generation, Hallelujah”
JERUSALEM, VA – NOVEMBER 5, 1831
I was 31 years of age the 2nd of October last, and born in Southampton County of Old Virginia. 2 In my childhood, while at play with other children, at three or four year old, I was telling them something which my mother, overhearing, said had happened before I was born. Others being called on were greatly astonished, knowing that these things had happened, and caused them to say in my hearing that I surely would be a prophet.
3 And my mother and father strengthened me in this my first impression, saying in my presence that I was intended for some great purpose. 4 I taught myself to read and write, and improved my learning at all opportunities. And having soon discovered my spirit to be great, I withdrew myself to fast and pray, and wrapped myself in mystery.
Chapter 2
Now finding that I had arrived man’s estate, and hearing the scriptures commented on at the meetings, I was struck with that particular passage which says, Seek Ye the Kingdom of God and all things shall be opened unto you.
2 I reflected much on this passage and prayed daily for light of the subject, and as I was praying one day at my plow the Spirit spoke to me saying, Seek ye the Kingdom of God and all things shall be opened unto you.
Chapter 3
Now finding that I had arrived to man’s estate, and was a slave, and these revelations being made known to me, I began to direct my attention to that great object, to fulfill the purpose for which, at this time, I felt assured I was intended.
2 At this time I had a vision: and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle. And the sun was darkened, and thunder rolled in the heavens, and blood flowed in streams and I heard a voice say, Such is your luck, such you are called to see, and let it come rough or smooth, you must surely bear it.
3 I now withdrew myself from the intercourse of my fellow servants, for the avowed purpose of serving the Spirit more fully. 4 And it appeared to me and reminded me of the things it had already shown me, that it would then reveal to me the knowledge of the elements, the revolution of the planets, the operation of the tides, and the changes of the season.
5 After this revelation, in the year 1825, and the knowledge of the elements being made known to me, I sought more than ever to obtain true holiness before the great day of judgment should appear, and then I began to receive the true knowledge of faith.
Chapter 4
And from the first steps of righteousness until the last was I made perfect. And the Holy Ghost was with me and said, Behold me as I stand in the heavens. 2 And I looked and saw the forms of men and women, and there were lights in the sky to which the children of darkness gave other names than what they really were, for they were the lights of the saviors hands stretched forth from East to West, even as they were extended on the cross on Calvary for the redemption of sinners.
3 And I wondered greatly at these miracles, and I prayed to be informed with a certainty of the meaning thereof. 4 And one day while I was laboring in the field, I discovered drops of blood on the corn as though it were a dew from heaven. 5 And I communicated it to many both white and black in the neighborhood, and they found on the leaves in the woods hieroglyphic characters and numbers, and the forms of men and women portrayed in blood, representing the figures I had seen before in the heavens.
6 And now the Holy Ghost had revealed itself to me, and made plain the miracles it had already shown me. 7 For as the blood of Christ had been shed on this earth, and had ascended to heaven for the salvation of sinners, and now was return to earth again in the form of dew, and as the leaves on the trees bore the impression of the figures I had seen in the heavens, it was plain to me that the Savior was about the lay down the yolk he had borne for the sins of men, and the great Day of Judgement was at hand.
Chapter 5
And on the 12th of May, 1828, I heard a loud noise in the heavens. 2 And the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said the serpent was loosened, and Christ had lain down the yolk he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight against the serpent, for the time was fast approaching when the first would be last and the last would be first.
3 By signs in the heavens it would make known to me when I should commence the great work, and until the first sign appeared I should conceal it from the knowledge of men.
4 But on the appearance of the sign – the eclipse of the sun last February – I should arise and prepare myself, and slay my enemies with their own weapons. 5 And immediately upon the sign appearing in the heavens, the seal was removed from my lips and I communicated the great work laid out for us to do to Henry, Hark, Nelson, and Sam.
6 Many were the plans formed and rejected by us, and the 4th of July last came and went without our coming to any* determination how to commence. 7 We were still forming new schemes and rejecting them when the sign appeared again, which determined me not to wait longer.
Epilogue (Psalm 43)
Judge me, Allah, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
2 For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
4 Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto Allah my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, Elohim Elohai.
5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Have Faith, Trust and Believe in Allah: for I shall yet praise Thee, who art the health of my countenance, Elohai.
Benediction
Charis Kuriou Iyesous Xristos Agion. Amen.
(last modified 7 August 2023)
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