7/25/2017

ALEXANDER ACOSTA/LABOR: “The Labor Department will begin the process reconsidering rules around when workers are eligible for overtime pay, potentially undoing one of the Obama administration’s major labor-policy changes.
A request for information to solicit comments on the rule will be published Wednesday [7-26-17], the department announced Tuesday. That information will aid the department, now under the direction of President Donald Trump’s labor secretary, Alexander Acosta, to revise the rule.
An eligible worker receives overtime pay, or one-and-half times their regular wage, when they work more than 40 hours in a week.
The department estimated that the rule finalized last year would have made 4.2 million more Americans eligible for overtime pay. But that rule didn’t go into effect. A federal court stopped implementation in December 2016 in response to a lawsuit filed by states and businesses, leaving the regulation in limbo.
The Labor Department is specifically seeking feedback on the appropriate salary level under which most workers are automatically eligible for overtime pay, whether that level should be increased on a regular schedule, and on the test to determine eligibility for a worker earning more than that amount.”

-Eric Morath, “Labor Department to Start Process of Revising Overtime Rule,” The Wall Street Journal online, July 25, 2017 01:02pm