Overtime pay would cover 4 million more workers by January 1 under a new Biden administration rule that boosts the salary threshold for exemption

The Biden administration on Tuesday announced a new rule that would make millions of white-collar workers newly eligible for overtime pay.

Starting July 1, the rule would increase the threshold at which executive, administrative and professional employees are exempt from overtime pay to $43,888 from the current $35,568. That change would make an additional 1 million workers eligible to receive time-and-a-half wages for each hour they put in beyond a 40-hour week.

On January 1, the threshold would rise further to $58,656, covering another 3 million workers.

“This rule will restore the promise to workers that if you work more than 40 hours in a week, you should be paid for that time,” Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su said in a statement. “So often, lower-paid salaried workers are doing the same job as their hourly counterparts but are spending more time away from their families for no additional pay. This is unacceptable.”

  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    98·
    7 months ago

    Even more important that the one time bump is the very last line of the article:

    Starting July 1, 2027, the rule requires Labor to adjust the salary threshold every three years to account for updated wage data.

    Rather than having to fight for these things every few years, we need to just tie minimum wage and the overtime floor to CPI. But, that’s something the GOP will fight tooth and nail.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      309·
      7 months ago

      Or just not exempt anyone from overtime?

      If you’re a “manager” and making less than 100k, you’re not the problem. You’re likely someone who busted their ass for decades already.

      But it doesn’t matter who it is, if you work overtime you should be paying for it.

      All means testing does, is split support for it.

      • Glemek@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        7 months ago

        All means testing does, is split support for it.

        It also makes it more expensive to implement, because there is bureaucratic labor involved in compliance.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          123·
          7 months ago

          Yep, and guess how a fast food manager making 65k but has to work 80 hours weeks is going to vote when we say we need to raise minimum wage.

          I don’t get how people don’t see this.

          The rich will always try to draw the “class warfare line” well below where it needs to be so they have a shot in winning politically.

          And the rich aren’t just paying off Republican politicians to accomplish that.

          • Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social
            1·
            7 months ago

            Excellent point. It is important to note that anytime employees stand up to employers, you get no shortage of propaganda trying to shout over the top of the issue that these workers dont deserve to be treated better bc of X, Y, or Z.

            Like how when actors or athletes try to get a bigger piece of the pie and u get a throng of poors getting mad at them instead of getting mad at the multibillion dollar corporations that are capable of paying them as much.

      • TyrionsNose@lemmy.world
        85·
        7 months ago

        A higher paid salary has negotiating power when being asked to work over time. Want me to stay late for a couple days no problem. Want me to work overtime for a couple weeks? Then I need to be paid at least straight time for every hour worked past 40.

        So far I haven’t had any issues with this approach. They either pony up or suddenly it’s not that urgent. Have yet to be fired, but I don’t get asked to work overtime unless it’s truly needed now.