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A federal judge in Texas on Friday permanently blocked a Biden administration rule that would have made about 4 million more salaried U.S. workers eligible for overtime pay. U.S. District Judge ...
The rule would have required employers to pay overtime premiums to salaried workers who earn less than $1,128 per week, or about $58,600 per year, when they work more than 40 hours in a week ...
Trump had set the threshold at just $35,568 during his first term. Biden’s rule would push it to $58,656 next year, so that the threshold covers an estimated 4 million additional workers.
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 (the "WARN Act") is a U.S. labor law that protects employees, their families, and communities by requiring most employers with 100 or more employees to provide notification 60 calendar days in advance of planned closings and mass layoffs of employees. [1]
Department of Labor poster notifying employees of rights under the Fair Labor Standards Act The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 29 U.S.C. § 203 [ 1 ] ( FLSA ) is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage , and " time-and-a-half " overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week.
[1] [3] The Solicitor of Labor has independent authority to initiate lawsuits to enforce 180 federal workplace statutes. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The position is a Presidential appointee requiring Senate confirmation , and is paid at Level IV of the Executive Schedule .
The threshold will increase to the equivalent of an annual salary of $43,888, or $844 a week, starting July 1, and then to $58,656, or $1,128 a week, on January 1, 2025.
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