Round 2 – Overtime Rules
Towards the end of the Obama administration, the Department of Labor announced standards that would expand overtime coverage. Here is a run down from what was proposed from a post way back in 2016:
The new “White Collar Rule” for exempt/non-exempt from the Department of Labor kicks in on December 1, 2016. In short, employers will no longer be able to treat “white collar” employees that make more than $47,476 per year as exempt and will pay overtime once they work over 4o hours a week. The DOL suggests three options to employees: (more…)