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