I love overtime pay, hard to believe its not a thing for every hourly job.
Feels like there must be a fine print if only 4 million are getting it.
The U.S. Department of Labor rule will require employers to pay overtime premiums to workers who earn a salary of less than $1,128 per week, or about $58,600 per year, when they work more than 40 hours in a week.
Whether this stands will depend on why Obama's rule was struck down and whether there's been enough technical changes to this rule to let it stand. This is genuinely good, but I don't see why there should be an income cap on it. People who work over 40 hours should be paid overtime, regardless of if they're hourly or salaried, low income or medium income.
The Labor Department in 2016 doubled the salary threshold to about $47,000. A federal judge in Texas the following year said that ceiling was so high that it could sweep in some management workers who are exempt from overtime pay protections, and struck it down.
The new rule is likely to face legal challenges arguing that like the Obama administration rule, it violates federal wage law by including many lower-paid supervisors and professionals who typically would not be eligible for overtime.
Unpaid overtime just needs to be outright illegal
I dunno about unpaid being illegal but uncompensated should be illegal. Like, if I work an extra 4 hours, I want that 4 hours back as PTO, or paid, or to be reflected in the bonus.