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fair overtime standards are to the middle class what the minimum wage is to low-income workers… the threshold for overtime pay—the salary level at which employers are required to pay overtime—has been allowed to erode to less than the poverty line for a family of four today. Only workers earning an annual income of under $23,660 qualify for mandatory overtime… To get the country back to the same equitable standards we had in 1975, the Department of Labor would simply have to raise the overtime threshold to $69,000. politico/magazine/story/2014/11/overtime-pay-obama-congress-112954.html#ixzz3KLS7zoJy
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 07:15:58 +0000

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