Monday morning musings for workplace watchers.
Overtime Rules May be Here to Stay | Congress Returns with Work to Do
Rebecca Rainey: Overtime pay rules are one of the top issues for voters in the 2024 election, according to polling conducted this summer by Navigator Research, a polling organization with ties to several left-leaning groups.
The surveys, taken in July and August, were focused on the policy ideas outlined in The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, which has connections to the Trump administration. (The Trump campaign has tried to distance itself from Project 2025.)
The polling reveals how the public is affected—both politically and personally—by policy changes to federal overtime pay requirements, an area of law that has been tweaked in some way by nearly every administration over the past two decades, with ensuing litigation in the courts. Broad support for overtime protections could help explain why former president Donald Trump has distanced himself publicly from calls to roll them back, and why the courts could be their biggest obstacle.
Some 84% of registered voters said that “allowing employers to stop paying hourly workers overtime” would hurt the country, according to a nationwide survey of 1,000 voters conducted by Navigator in late June.
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, a law passed in 1938, any work an employee does after working 40 hours in a single week must be paid at 1.5 times their regular rate of pay.
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