Changes in overtime pay rules could have 'big effect on employers,' especially in Midwest

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20140323/MONEY/140329674/1707#changes-in-overtime-pay-rules-could-have-big-effect-on-employers-especially-in-midwest

PUBLISHED SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 2014 AT 1:00 AM / UPDATED AT 11:32 AM

By Steve Jordon / World-Herald Staff Writer

It's not just about assistant managers who flip burgers.

Coming changes in federal pay rules apparently would mean overtime pay for large numbers of white-collar workers, many of them with supervisory, administrative or professional duties.

One early proposal would require overtime pay for every salaried or hourly worker making less than $50,440 a year. Such a rule would hit businesses especially hard in the Midwest, where average wages are relatively low.

“The increase in the salary limit is going to have a big effect on employers,” said Allison D. Balus, an attorney with the Baird Holm law firm in Omaha who works on labor issues. “A lot of their currently exempt employees are going to drop below that limit. It will require a lot of retooling.”

FULL story and photo at link.

[lame54]

1. Not exploiting people is expensive

[PowerToThePeople]

2. Boo Hoo, we can't screw workers over any more. Waaaaaahhhh!!!!

[idendoit]

3. It's about time salaried professionals get the same consideration.

Let's get all us wage slaves under the big tent. It's a start on driving home the point that our labor is not a commodity.

[Phlem]

4. I wonder what's going to happen to the

Video Game Industry. As a veteran this was sorely needed 20 years ago. The very model of white collar slavery, salaried pay.



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