Workers making less than about $55,000 annually would be automatically entitled to time-and-a-half pay under DOL’s proposal.
DOL estimates that the change would result in higher wages for 3.6 million workers. | Francis Chung/POLITICOThe Biden administration on Wednesday proposed giving raises to more than 3 million workers by making them eligible for overtime pay.
“For over 80 years, a cornerstone of workers’ rights in this country is the right to a 40-hour workweek, the promise that you get to go home after 40 hours or you get higher pay for each extra hour that you spend laboring away from your loved ones,” acting Labor Secretary Julie Su said in a release. “Workers deserve to continue to share in the economic prosperity of Bidenomics.”
Employer groups, whose members would likely see increased labor costs as a result of DOL’s proposed policy, quickly lined up in opposition.
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