-->Eine 28 Jahre alte Regelung, welche die Überstunde mit dem 1,5 fachen Lohn vergütet wird reformiert.

Auszüge:

Workers now are exempt from overtime pay if they earn more than $155 a week, or $8,060 a year, and meet other convoluted, confusing job criteria, such as devoting at least 80 percent of their time to"exercising discretion" and other"intellectual" tasks that cannot be"standardized in... a given period of time."

The proposal would raise the salary cap to $425 a week, or $22,100 a year, and any worker earning less automatically would be required to receive overtime pay.

Overall, businesses could face costs of $870 million to $1.57 billion to implement new requirements.

But McCutchen said the benefits of increased productivity and fewer lawsuits could mean savings of $1.1 billion to $1.9 billion

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