Millions of workers earning less than $55,000 could get overtime pay under Biden proposal
Millions of workers earning less than $55,000 could get overtime pay under Biden proposal
The proposed rule would lift the salary threshold for overtime pay from $35,568 to $55,000.
The proposed rule would lift the salary threshold for overtime pay from $35,568 to $55,000.
Remember when Obama did this exact thing and Trump just immediately undid it when he became president?
And all his constituents that he was screwing over cheered him for being "a smart businessman".
If I recall correctly, it got overturned by a Federal Court before Trump took office. Trump WOULD have undone it - but he didn't have to.
You do not recall correctly.
https://www.epi.org/press/the-trump-administrations-overtime-rule-leaves-millions-of-workers-behind/
His justice department didn't defend the rule and then he replaced it with a much weaker version.
This would hit millions of teachers.
Salary threshold? I'm salaried. I don't get overtime. Neither do a lot of other salaried people.
Aww salaried people, not hourly
Hourly people already get these overtime pay protections
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Good luck. This isn't going anywhere.
It was already done by Obama and then undone by Trump. It does not need congressional intervention.
It got overturned by a Federal Court before Trump took office. Trump WOULD have undone it - but he didn't have to.