Challenge to Trump Overtime Rule Mulled by Democratic State AGs

The top attorneys in 15 states are considering going to court to challenge a Trump administration move to expand overtime pay requirements that they say doesn’t go far enough.

Democratic attorneys general in New York, Pennsylvania, California, and other states May 21 urged the Labor Department to rethink a proposal expected to make 1 million workers newly eligible for overtime pay. They want the DOL to instead fight to save an Obama-era regulation that was blocked in court by a separate group of states. The Obama rule would have made 4 million workers newly eligible for time-and-a-half overtime wages.

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