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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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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Remember when Obama did this exact thing and Trump just immediately undid it when he became president?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

And all his constituents that he was screwing over cheered him for being "a smart businessman".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Cool and I propose we make the minimum wage a living wage instead.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

This would hit millions of teachers.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Salary threshold? I'm salaried. I don't get overtime. Neither do a lot of other salaried people.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That's federal minimum wage. So it's the $35,568 from the article which Biden is trying to raise to $55,000.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Do you make more than $35,568?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I do not. My job sucks and I deserve higher pay.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That sounds remarkably convenient for your employer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Like I said, the job sucks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Why aren't you keeping track of it? The labor board exists. Use it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aww salaried people, not hourly

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Hourly people already get these overtime pay protections

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

""""""""""proposal""""""""""

Good luck. This isn't going anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It was already done by Obama and then undone by Trump. It does not need congressional intervention.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that sounds an awful lot like not having gone anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It went somewhere, and came back. It was the law of the land for a brief time.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

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.