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Related: About this forumTexas wins court block on Biden overtime pay rule
https://www.reuters.com/legal/texas-wins-court-block-biden-overtime-pay-rule-2024-06-29/Texas wins court block on Biden overtime pay rule
By Daniel Wiessner
June 28, 2024 8:29 PM EDT Updated 10 hours ago
June 28 (Reuters) - A federal judge in Texas on Friday temporarily blocked a Biden administration rule from taking effect that would extend mandatory overtime pay to 4 million salaried U.S. workers.
U.S. District Judge Sean Jordan in Sherman, Texas, said the U.S. Department of Labor rule that is set to go into effect on Monday improperly bases eligibility for overtime pay on workers' wages rather than their job duties.
Jordan, an appointee of Republican former President Donald Trump, blocked the Labor Department from applying the rule to state workers in Texas pending the outcome of a legal challenge by the Republican-led state.
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The rule adopted in April would require employers to pay overtime premiums to salaried workers who earn less than $1,128 per week, or about $58,600 per year, when they work more than 40 hours in a week. The current threshold of about $35,500 was set in 2019.
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By Daniel Wiessner
June 28, 2024 8:29 PM EDT Updated 10 hours ago
June 28 (Reuters) - A federal judge in Texas on Friday temporarily blocked a Biden administration rule from taking effect that would extend mandatory overtime pay to 4 million salaried U.S. workers.
U.S. District Judge Sean Jordan in Sherman, Texas, said the U.S. Department of Labor rule that is set to go into effect on Monday improperly bases eligibility for overtime pay on workers' wages rather than their job duties.
Jordan, an appointee of Republican former President Donald Trump, blocked the Labor Department from applying the rule to state workers in Texas pending the outcome of a legal challenge by the Republican-led state.
[...]
The rule adopted in April would require employers to pay overtime premiums to salaried workers who earn less than $1,128 per week, or about $58,600 per year, when they work more than 40 hours in a week. The current threshold of about $35,500 was set in 2019.
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Texas wins court block on Biden overtime pay rule (Original Post)
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Jun 29
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CurtEastPoint
(18,996 posts)1. Dump appointee (natch) and Federalist Soc member. Asshole.
Lonestarblue
(11,193 posts)2. Wage theft is a huge issue in this country.
Classifying workers as management when they manage nothing is common to avoid overtime pay. Classifying them as independent contractors allows businesses to avoid paying any benefits. Our system of capitalism is totally anti-worker.
Zambero
(9,344 posts)3. Red state predictable
Systematically union-busted, working longer for less, disenfranchised, let down by the system, ultimately cynical and laser-focused on RW media culture war issues to the detriment of economic well-being. The conservative agenda for setting up and leading their lemmings over a cliff.
Old Crank
(4,252 posts)4. That court again.
duckworth969
(965 posts)5. Texas again
Jesus H Christ, always the same with that state.
Cruel behavior from small thinking people that are flat ignorant.
Javaman
(62,848 posts)6. cruelty is their mission. nt