Josip,
Members of Congress—Democrats and Republicans alike—are trying to delay implementation of the president’s new overtime rule.
In May, President Obama and the Department of Labor (DOL) announced a plan to update the seriously outdated overtime rules to strengthen the right to overtime pay for 12.5 million more working people. The plan is to raise the current overtime salary threshold from $23,660 to $47,476, putting $12 billion in the pockets of workers over the next decade.
But now, Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-Oregon) has introduced a bill that would undermine the DOL’s efforts and delay the overtime rule by three years.Additionally, the Schrader bill would prevent the salary threshold from automatically increasing in the future to account for overall salary growth. This would lower the share of those who would be covered by the threshold from 33 percent today to just 16 percent by 2035.
Click here to call your representative and tell them to reject HR 5813—the Overtime Reform and Enhancement Act.
In Schrader’s own home district in rural Oregon, a family of four needs $60,489 to pay for housing, food, child care, transportation, health care, other necessities, and taxes. Forget about retirement or college savings. Rep. Schrader thinks that employees paid more than $35,984 don’t deserve overtime pay, at least not yet.
Last week, Donald Trump joined conservatives in calling for a “roll back” of overtime protections, and EPI’s Larry Mishel fired back:
“Donald Trump apparently thinks that millions of employees paid less than $47,476 don’t deserve overtime pay…. A candidate who wants to help the middle class would support a stronger overtime rule.”
EPI research shows that in the 1960s and 1970s, about 60 percent of workers were guaranteed overtime pay because of their low salaries. But current overtime rules haven’t kept up with salaries and the cost of living, and today less than 10 percent of salaried workers have that guarantee.
Donald Trump and conservative members of Congress are attempting to steal an important victory from 12.5 million workers.
Please, call your representative today and tell them to reject the Overtime Reform and Enhancement Act.
Thank you for all that you do.
Ross Eisenbrey
Vice President, EPI Policy Center |
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