In what seems like an increasingly common scenario, Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens joined a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the U.S. Department of Labor’s new overtime rule in federal court. In March of 2014, President Obama ordered the Department of Labor to revise the Fair Labor Standard’s Act overtime exemption for executive, administrative and professional employees. Commonly called the “white-collar exemption”, the rule doubles the salary-level threshold for employees to be exempt from overtime, regardless of their job’s duties.
Slated to begin December 1, all employees – including state and local governments – making less than $913 a week, roughly $47K/year, will be entitled to overtime pay. The current threshold is $455/week. The rule additionally will automatically update the salary threshold to make sure it remains at the 40th percentile of full-time salaries in the lowest income region in the country. By 2020, that number is expected to be at $51,000/year.
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