Reply #6: I don't think it would

[Nikia]

Let's say that production demands require that your 100 employees work 50 hours per week. That is 10 hours per week paid at time and a half. A company might decide to hire more employees to avoid paying that 10 hours time and a half per employee. If the employees are all paid straight time for their additional hours of work, management will not hire more employees to cut the overtime hours of the existing workers. They might even lay off some workers and make everyone work 60 hours per week instead.