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.”

  • ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world
    36·
    7 months ago

    While I agree with you about half measures that divide the workforce/classes I am still all about “raising the basement”.

    Too many policies will only meaningfully impact the wealthy, so seeing lower pay bands receive specific attention is always great to see.

    There are still far too many loopholes, lack of enforcement/consequences, and creative schedules that actively repress workers, but this policy sounds pretty great and it is affecting a lot of workers in less than a year which is fantastic momentum.

    It’s also more difficult to pass sweeping legislation when Republicans + Conservative supreme Court do absolutely everything in their power to resist any kind of improvement to American life they possibly can.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      615·
      7 months ago

      Yeah, but this is about “management” and 58k is pretty much the average for McDonald’s managers.

      https://www.indeed.com/cmp/McDonald’s/salaries/General-Manager

      Is it better than nothing?

      Absolutely.

      But there’s still a shit ton of management jobs under the cutoff.

      I mean, it’s says right there it’s only the bottom 35%…

      That leaves about two thirds of managers not getting overtime.

      But Everytime people argue for means testing as a temporary measure, I can’t help but think about that’s what’s been happening with universal healthcare for longer than Joe Biden has been alive.

      It never works out, eventually we get just enough that there’s no longer enough pressure to get it for everyone.

      It’s a flawed strategy, that’s not an opinion, it’s a factual analysis of the last century…