That's another thing that good, Christian, middle-class workers should never expect from the Republicans.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/obama-plans-to-expand-overtime-eligibility-2014-03-12?link=MW_latest_news
Currently, many businesses aren’t required to pay overtime to certain salaried workers if they earn more than $455 a week, a level that was set in 2004 and comes to roughly $24,000 a year. The White House is expected to direct the Labor Department to raise that salary threshold, though it is unclear by how much.
Ross Eisenbrey, vice president of the liberal Economic Policy Institute, and Jared Bernstein, a former White House economist, recently proposed the limit be increased to $984 a week, or roughly $50,000 a year.
That's been a huge scandal over the past 30 years where corporations are classifying more and more low-wage workers as "Managers" (e.g., a telemarketer in a call center is a "customer service manager") to screw them out of overtime pay.
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