The Biden administration on Tuesday announced a new rule that would make millions of white-collar workers newly eligible for overtime pay.
Starting July 1, the rule would increase the threshold at which executive, administrative and professional employees are exempt from overtime pay to $43,888 from the current $35,568. That change would make an additional 1 million workers eligible to receive time-and-a-half wages for each hour they put in beyond a 40-hour week.
On January 1, the threshold would rise further to $58,656, covering another 3 million workers.
“This rule will restore the promise to workers that if you work more than 40 hours in a week, you should be paid for that time,” Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su said in a statement. “So often, lower-paid salaried workers are doing the same job as their hourly counterparts but are spending more time away from their families for no additional pay. This is unacceptable.”
Even more important that the one time bump is the very last line of the article:
Starting July 1, 2027, the rule requires Labor to adjust the salary threshold every three years to account for updated wage data.
Rather than having to fight for these things every few years, we need to just tie minimum wage and the overtime floor to CPI. But, that’s something the GOP will fight tooth and nail.
Or just not exempt anyone from overtime?
If you’re a “manager” and making less than 100k, you’re not the problem. You’re likely someone who busted their ass for decades already.
But it doesn’t matter who it is, if you work overtime you should be paying for it.
All means testing does, is split support for it.
All means testing does, is split support for it.
It also makes it more expensive to implement, because there is bureaucratic labor involved in compliance.
I’m hourly, work 60 hours per week and get zero overtime.
This is entirely legal because I’m a truck driver.
Actually, I really am an office worker in a trucking company. But I occasionally, like once a month or less, run a short load if they really need me to. That makes me still exempt and is still legal for them to do.
Among other things I also get no sick leave
The sick leave is insidious because sick employees come in vs wasting coveted PTO. It’s a self-fulfilling problem as more and more workers fall ill.
Oh yeah I don’t get PTO either, or rather, it gets paid lump sum once per year. Once a year I get an extra weeks worth of pay. Of course living month to month it’s not likely I can ever save that.
Damn Biden’s on a roll.
What other note worthy announcements have come out lately? Not being sarcastic, I’m out of the loop.
Federal restrictions on anti-trans ‘bathroom laws’ in schools, banning noncompete agreements in most jobs, lots of various industry-specific regulations, probably some I’m forgetting.
Oh shit I hadn’t heard of those. The bathroom laws I’m particularly excited for. Thank you!
Increased corporate tax to offset lower tax for workers, created a 13 million acre, oil-free, Alaskan wildlife reserve, and a $7B solar subsidy too.
I heard all of PugJesus’ news items, how tf did all these pass me up?!
The alaska reserve is a huge win with how much oil companies have been trying to gobble all that beautiful land up.
Thanks for the reading material!
Good news doesn’t stay in the headlines as long as bad. Glad to help!
Its also shunned by the bad faith actors intent on only spreading FUD, unfortunately. Thanks again