The Biden administration on Tuesday announced a new rule that would make millions of white-collar workers newly eligible for overtime pay.
Starting July 1, the rule would increase the threshold at which executive, administrative and professional employees are exempt from overtime pay to $43,888 from the current $35,568. That change would make an additional 1 million workers eligible to receive time-and-a-half wages for each hour they put in beyond a 40-hour week.
On January 1, the threshold would rise further to $58,656, covering another 3 million workers.
“This rule will restore the promise to workers that if you work more than 40 hours in a week, you should be paid for that time,” Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su said in a statement. “So often, lower-paid salaried workers are doing the same job as their hourly counterparts but are spending more time away from their families for no additional pay. This is unacceptable.”
I’m hourly, work 60 hours per week and get zero overtime.
This is entirely legal because I’m a truck driver.
Actually, I really am an office worker in a trucking company. But I occasionally, like once a month or less, run a short load if they really need me to. That makes me still exempt and is still legal for them to do.
Among other things I also get no sick leave
The sick leave is insidious because sick employees come in vs wasting coveted PTO. It’s a self-fulfilling problem as more and more workers fall ill.
Oh yeah I don’t get PTO either, or rather, it gets paid lump sum once per year. Once a year I get an extra weeks worth of pay. Of course living month to month it’s not likely I can ever save that.