Business owners may not have bigger fish to fry this election season, but there are others frying away that could have more immediate and dramatic effects on operations, among them: The looming overtime rule.

The rule, emanating from the U.S. Department of Labor, would shift thousands of workers from exempt to nonexempt status, forcing companies to make hard choices about staffing and compensation.

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Dan Cook

Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.

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