Millions Fewer Would Get Overtime Protections If the Overtime Threshold Were Only $31,000
By Heidi Shierholz, Economic Policy Institute Federal law requires that people working more than 40 hours a week be paid 1.5 times their rate of pay for the extra hours, but exempts salaried workers who make above a certain salary threshold and are deemed to have “executive, administrative, or professional” duties. The salary threshold is […]