Trump Administration Weighs New Overtime Pay Requirements (1)

The Labor Department is set to update private sector overtime pay requirements, but officials still won’t say exactly how the new approach will differ from a stalled Obama-era move designed to put more money in workers’ pockets.

The department is eyeing January as a soft deadline to unveil a proposed regulation that would revise overtime eligibility under federal wage-and-hour law, a DOL spokesman told Bloomberg Law Sept. 24. A trio of department officials earlier the same day held the last of five scheduled listening sessions seeking feedback on when employers should be required to pay workers time-and-a-half wages for overtime. ...