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Dear John,
Imagine this.
You work a salaried job that pays just enough to cover your bills. However, your job is also very demanding—and your boss often has you working well over 40 hours each week with very little time for anything else.
Now imagine you just received news that your employer is required to either increase your salary or provide overtime pay every time you work more than 40 hours a week.
How would that change your life? What would you do with that extra time or extra income?
We can make that happen. The Department of Labor (DOL) wants to hear from workers like you, John, that this policy is needed.
In 2019, the Trump administration issued totally inadequate regulations that allow employers to avoid paying overtime to salaried workers in jobs they classify as managerial or professional if the workers make at least $35,568. This allowed employers to call people managers and pay them just over the salary threshold, to avoid paying workers overtime.
We can put a stop to this sort of exploitation. The Department of Labor (DOL) has proposed new rules to ensure that anyone making less than $55,068 gets overtime pay when they work over 40 hours in a week, even if they are a manager or a supervisor.
This increase in the overtime salary threshold (nearly $20,000!) could be life-changing for workers! Millions more people, especially women and people of color, will be guaranteed more pay when they work more hours—or more time for their lives if their employers aren’t willing to pay overtime.
But to make this proposed rule a reality, the Department of Labor needs to hear from you! The business lobby is already gearing up to fight this pro-worker policy. We must signal to DOL that there is strong public support for this proposed regulation. Take action now!
In solidarity,
Julie Vogtman
she/her/hers
Director of Job Quality and Senior Counsel
National Women's Law Center
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