Punching In: The Trump Overtime Rule Numbers Battle

April 8, 2019, 10:30 AM UTC

Monday morning musings for workplace watchers

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Chris Opfer: A prominent, labor-backed policy group is out with a new analysis today that’s likely to shape the debate over the Trump administration’s proposal to expand overtime pay requirements. The Economic Policy Institute says workers will lose out on $1.2 billion per year in overtime pay that they would have received under a more expansive proposal floated by the Obama administration and still being batted around in the courts.

“If the department finalizes its new proposal, millions of ...

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