The proposed rule would lift the salary threshold for overtime pay from $35,568 to $55,000.
The income threshold for overtime pay should be 0. Wtf is this?
“Salaried Exempt” also shouldn’t exist.
I was “offered” a salary role with a promotion once, and I asked them if it was exempt or nonexempt. They acted confused, then said exempt. I was denied the promotion, and took a job elsewhere. Fuck that nonsense.
This is the threshold they use as the cutoff for overtime pay. Originally the cutoff was $35,000 a year and then you wouldn’t have to pay any overtime if the salary is over that. This would require overtime pay for any salaried employees that are under $55,000 a year. It’s a good thing and it’s being used to come back practices that major retailers like Dollar general embrace.
I guess I read it backward, but $55k still seems like a low cap. Of course, for this to work at all that would mean the salaried employee would still need to punch a clock, which is annoying.
I will happily take the 5 seconds it takes to punch a clock if that means I’m not having to work for free.
That might depend on how often you work overtime and if you sometimes dip out early for stuff, which could be used against you.
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.
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’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.
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.
Why aren’t you keeping track of it? The labor board exists. Use it.
That sounds remarkably convenient for your employer.
Like I said, the job sucks.
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.
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.
