From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/):
Submit a comment today at https://actionnetwork.org/letters/submit-your-official-comment-tell-the-department-of-labor-to-reject-trumps-weak-overtime-rules!
In 2016, the Department of Labor (DOL) attempted to strengthen overtime regulations for working people.
The updated overtime pay rule would have raised the overtime salary threshold from $23,660 to $47,476 in 2016, and by 2020 it would have automatically increased to around $51,000. That rule would have benefited 13.5 million working people―making 4.6 million newly eligible to receive the overtime pay they deserve, and strengthening the rights of 8.9 million more.
Unfortunately, this long-overdue update was blocked in the courts by business interests and Republican-led states, and the administration refused to defend the updated rule.
Research by the Economic Policy Institute shows that the administration’s lack of action has already cost working people more than $1.6 billion in lost overtime pay.
Now, the administration has published a new proposal that would dramatically weaken the DOL’s 2016 overtime rule―leaving behind 8.2 million people, including 4.2 million women, 3.0 million people of color, 4.7 million workers without a college degree, and 2.7 million parents of children under the age of 18, who would have gotten overtime protections under the 2016 guidelines.
Take action by sending the Department of Labor an official comment. Tell them: Workers deserve stronger overtime protections!
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