Wanted: Overworked Manager Who Can Expand Trump Overtime Rule

Workers’ rights lawyers planning to sue the Trump administration over a new overtime pay rule may have to walk a legal tightrope: They want to challenge the regulation without harming more than a million employees who could see a pay bump thanks to the rule.

Unions and advocacy groups are throwing out the typical playbook, in which they sue ahead of time to block a regulation from going into effect. Instead, the plan is to wait for the new overtime regulation to hit the books, gauge how employers respond, and select plaintiffs and file a lawsuit, according to interviews with ...