George Morrison, an operating engineer supervisor in New York City, received $400,000 a year because his union contract specified he be paid overtime rates whether he was at work or not. Morrison, a supervisor at the Battery Park City housing development project in lower Manhattan, was entitled to receive unlimited overtime pay beyond his eight-hour workday if any union members worked overtime. Because a supervisor did not have to be on the site, Morrison was paid around the clock during times he was in Mexico, the Caribbean, Europe, and South Carolina. Without overtime, his earnings would normally have been a mere $60,000 per year.

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