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.”
The initial bump in the salary threshold to $43,888 that takes effect July 1 is based on a Trump administration formula that sets it at the 20th percentile of the full-time weekly earnings of salaried employees in the lowest-wage region, which is currently the South. The increase to $58, 656 on January 1 adopts a new formula that sets the threshold at the 35th percentile of those weekly earnings.
43k is nothing to celebrate, and even the 58k limit should be higher.
I just wish we stopped all this means testing shit and just did the common sense solution:
If you work more than 80 hours a pay period, you get overtime.
Swing shifts make it breaking down by week problematic. But I’d like to see even over 8 hours in a 24 hour period require overtime rates.
The only thing means testing is good for, is dividing the working class.
In some parts of the country 60k still isn’t much. That’s almost average for McDonald’s managers…
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.
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…
