From National Employment Law Project (http://www.nelp.org/):
America’s workers are spending long hours at work, but they are falling behind, and the erosion of overtime pay—a core workplace protection—is a key reason why so many working and middle-class families are struggling to make ends meet.
In 2016, the Department of Labor attempted to bring overtime pay into the twenty-first century by issuing a long-overdue update to our federal overtime rules, narrowing the loopholes employers could use to exempt their workers from receiving overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours per week. But in 2017, the Trump administration made clear that it would not defend the increased salary level contained in the rule from the business interests that are opposed to expanding protections.
In response, Senators Sherrod Brown and Patty Murray and Representatives Mark Takano and Bobby Scott have introduced the Restoring Overtime Pay Act, which would raise the salary threshold under which salaried workers are guaranteed overtime pay from $23,660 to $48,412―increasing overtime protections for millions of working people.
Stand with NELP and our partners and become a co-signer of the Restoring Overtime Pay Act today at https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/add-your-name-to-co-sign-the-restoring-overtime-pay-act!
Since the Trump administration abandoned the overtime pay rule, working people have already lost $500 million in potential wages, and each year that the administration fails to act, millions of working people will lose over a billion dollars.
The Restoring Overtime Pay Act would set the threshold under which workers must receive overtime pay at $48,412, and update every three years to maintain its value as wages and prices rise. In the absence of any real action from the Trump administration, it’s critical that Congress act to raise the wages of working people.
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