The Texas AFL-CIO wants to intervene as a defendant in the challenge over the U.S. Labor Department’s overtime-pay rule, fearing that federal agencies under Donald Trump will not adequately defend the Obama administration regulations.
A federal trial judge in November blocked the rule, which would have expanded the scope of eligibility for overtime pay to millions more workers. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted a request from the Justice Department, litigating the case for labor regulators, to expedite the government’s appeal.
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