Originally Posted by
piloto2
Where exactly in the act does it state "published hourly rates". It just says "pay rate" in everything I've read. Getting your pay cut in half is certainly a change in one's pay rate. If the Act wasn't meant to protect people's historic take home pay, why did the application for the government money require applicants to document historic salaries?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pay%20rate
The purpose of requiring companies to give the government historic payroll expense was to determine the level of funding that was distributed. Going from a captain who maxed out their hours out last year to a first officer making reserve guarantee is a substantial reduction in take home pay, but the company didn’t reduce any rates. It’s not always about the spirit of the law, but the actual wording. When the 14th Amendment was passed, the spirit and intent of the law was to give the recently freed slaves the rights of citizenship as a free people born into this country, not as property, as was the case before. Granting anchor babies citizenship never was their intent or within the spirit of the law, but it is within the actual text. I don’t want to start some big political debate on immigration, this is just an example of the spirit vs what the law actually says.