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Will Republicans oppose effort to restore overtime pay?
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 30, 2018) — When President Donald Trump abandoned the Department of Labor’s new overtime protections, he cost working people over $1 billion in annual wages. Now working families are standing up for a fair return on their work and fighting for the Restoring Overtime Pay Act, which would extend overtime pay protection to millions of working people.
Pro-worker members of Congress have introduced the Restoring Overtime Pay Act, dramatically raising the overtime salary threshold — the annual salary level under which salaried workers are automatically eligible for overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours per week. Alongside Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio,) Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) has introduced the Senate version of the bill, and in the House, Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) is among the measure’s co-sponsors.
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It would more than double the threshold from $23,660 to $47,476, extending critical overtime protection to more than 4 million working people.
As corporations and CEOs continue to enjoy a $1.5 trillion tax giveaway, working families are demanding that we receive the wages we’ve rightfully earned.
The AFL-CIO contributed to this report.