Overtime Expansion ‘Daring’ Businesses to Sue Over Pay Threshold

A highly anticipated US Labor Department proposal to expand overtime protections to more workers already faces the threat of litigation as it navigates a similar gauntlet over salary thresholds that ultimately struck down an Obama-era rule.

Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su announced Wednesday that the proposed rule would give “millions more salaried workers the right to overtime protections if they earn less than $55,000 a year.”

But a lengthy footnote in the text of the rulemaking indicates that the salary figure under which workers will automatically be owed time-and-a-half pay could be as high as $60,209 in the final version ...