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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.
Cool and I propose we make the minimum wage a living wage instead.
This would hit millions of teachers.
Salary threshold? I'm salaried. I don't get overtime. Neither do a lot of other salaried people.
2x minimum wage for a 40 hour work week is the salary threshold. If you make less your employer is breaking the law. In California the salary threshold is currently $64,480.
I'm bad at math, but I'm pretty sure I make more than that. I live in Indiana. Minimum wage is sickeningly low. $7.25/hr.
That's federal minimum wage. So it's the $35,568 from the article which Biden is trying to raise to $55,000.
Do you make more than $35,568?
I do not. My job sucks and I deserve higher pay.
I believe that if you make below that threshold as a salaried employee and do not receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 per week, then your employer may be violating a rule.
Wage theft is the largest category of theft in the USA.
I wouldn't be shocked if there was wage theft going on, but there's also no way to record my hours. No one to keep track of it.
That sounds remarkably convenient for your employer.
Like I said, the job sucks.
Why aren't you keeping track of it? The labor board exists. Use it.
I'm curious what you do where you are salaried with that low of a pay. Totally understand if you don't want to share though.
Aww salaried people, not hourly
Hourly people already get these overtime pay protections
Imagine being told that you have to work for free because they deem you worked too many hours in a world where you can hardly make enough to pay for rent let alone buy a house.
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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.
You should look up the words "preliminary" and "injunction."
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.
that sounds an awful lot like not having gone anywhere.
It went somewhere, and came back. It was the law of the land for a brief time.