Trump Labor Department slammed for overtime pay rule that “leaves behind millions of workers”

By Jessica Corbett

(Excerpt) 

“With this rule, the Trump administration continues to undermine the economic security of working families, forgoing overtime protections for millions of workers who were covered by the Obama administration’s rule,” Tanya Goldman, a senior wage and hour policy adviser in the Obama administration who is now an attorney at the Center for Law and Social Policy, told Bloomberg Law. “The white-collar overtime salary level has become so out-of-date, that people are working long hours away from their families, without needed overtime pay, losing out on time and money.”

 

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Source URL: https://www.salon.com/2019/09/25/trump-labor-department-slammed-for-overtime-pay-rule-that-leaves-behind-millions-of-workers/