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THREAD—"More than eight million workers will be left behind by the Trump overtime rule; Workers would receive $1.4 billion less than under the Obama rule"
| by @hshierholz epi.org/blog/more-than…
| by @hshierholz epi.org/blog/more-than…
The Trump Labor Department has announced its final overtime rule, "which will set the salary threshold under which salaried workers are automatically entitled to overtime pay to $35,568 a year.
"The rule leaves behind millions of workers who would have received overtime protections under the much stronger rule, published in 2016, that Trump administration chose to abandon.
"Using the same methodology used by the Department of Labor in their estimates of the economic impact of the rule, I estimate that 8.2 million workers who would have benefited from the 2016 rule will be left behind by the Trump administration’s rule...
"... including 3.2 million workers who would have gotten new overtime protections under the 2016 rule and 5.0 million who would have gotten strengthened overtime protections under the 2016 rule.
"This administration is turning its back on 4.2 million women, 2.7 million parents of children under the age of 18, 2.9 million people of color, and 4.6 million workers without a college degree."
