Millions of workers earning less than $55,000 could get overtime pay under Biden proposal
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The proposed rule would lift the salary threshold for overtime pay from $35,568 to $55,000.
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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.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/22/503081151/federal-judge-blocks-obama-administrations-overtime-pay-rule
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.
I don't think it would. My wife is a teacher and her contract states she is only paid for teaching time and school mandated events like staff meetings or training. Any kind of of time spent outside of school preparing lessons or grading isn't paid time. One of the tactics teachers use leading up to a strike is to only work contract hours and have everything else fall behind to have parents put pressure on administration.
Teachers not getting paid to grade just means that our educational system is run on/by state-mandated slavery. Gross.
Sounds like a good solution. Don't grade papers if there's not enough time to grade them during paid hours. Especially don't grade the standardized tests that the schools are so crazy about.
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 really curious what you do where you are salaried with that low of a pay. Totally understand if you don't want to share though.
Sorry, not willing to share. But let's just say it's a very small company owned by a very large company but allowed to be autonomous. I'm the lowest paid person here despite having huge responsibilities too. I'm looking for a new job, but it's got to be WFH. I'm on a hybrid schedule now, one of the few reasons I've stuck with this job for so long, and I don't want to work in an office at all anymore.
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.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/22/503081151/federal-judge-blocks-obama-administrations-overtime-pay-rule
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.
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.