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Fair Labor Standards Act

Workers Rights

DOL raises overtime threshold for 4 million salaried workers

Under a new DOL rule, salaried workers who make less than $43,888 a year will qualify for overtime pay effective July 1. 
Workers Rights

An end to overtime? U.S. House passes a bill letting employers offer ‘comp’ time instead of paying overtime

The bill would erode the 40-hour work week by making it cheaper for employers to require long hours.
Workers Rights

After years of delay, Obama DOL says home care workers will get minimum wage, overtime

A decades-old exclusion ends for nearly 2 million workers.

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