4.3 million workers could lose overtime protections
Trump administration moves to revert to weak Trump-era overtime threshold ($35,568) from Biden’s $58,656 rule, stripping overtime protections from 4.3 million workers per Economic Policy Institute. Project 2025 also proposes calculating overtime over 2-4 week periods instead of weekly, and substituting comp time for time-and-a-half pay, further eroding worker protections.
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Sources (4)
- Project 2025 would strip federal overtime protections from at least 8 million workers (2024-09-09)
- Project 2025 Would Cut Access to Overtime Pay (2025-05-15)
- On Overtime Pay, Trump Left Millions Behind as President. Project 2025 Would Weaken it More (2025-05-15)
- What the Trump Project 2025 Agenda Means for Wages & Worker Rights (2025-05-15)
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