Trumka Pushes White House on Overtime Pay
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AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka said in an interview published Friday that he believed President Obama should take an executive action ensuring overtime pay for workers with an annual salary under $51,168.
That would represent more than doubling the current threshold, which provides time-and-a-half pay for workers making $23,660 per year or less.
The spotlight is now on raising wages, Trumka told The Washington Post. Raising wages is the key unifying progressive value that ties all the pieces of economic and social justice together. We think the president has a great opportunity to show that he is behind that agenda by increasing the overtime regulations to a minimum threshold of $51,168. Thats the marker.
Trumka adds his voice to a growing chorus of Democratic lawmakers and liberal policy groups calling Obama to move boldly on the forthcoming regulations, due out next month.
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http://thehill.com/regulation/administration/229011-labor-chief-pushes-white-house-on-overtime