Advocates for an increase, like EPI and the National Employment Law Project, would like to see the threshold raised to at least $51,168or $984 a week.
That threshold would provide automatic overtime eligibility for 47% of workers. That’s up from 12% today but still below the 65% eligible in 1975.
What’s more, advocates would like the Labor Department to be more specific as to what makes a position exempt from overtime. For example, to be classified as an exempt administrative employee, a worker’s primary duty must include the “the exercise of discretion and independent judgment with respect to matters of significance.”
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Whenever they new rules are released, however, it will be the start of a comment-and-review process that could take months before anything is finalized.
Advocates for change hope it won’t take too long. If the new rules go into effect right before President Obama leaves office, the next president could undo them if he or she doesn’t like them.
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