States’overtime threshold plans go further than that proposed by the Obamaadministration; in Washington state has proposed raising thethreshold to $79,872 beginning in 2026.
Disappointed by the Trump administration’s inaction on theissue, a number of states are moving to make moreworkers eligible for mandatory overtime pay.
In the final year of President Obama’s administration, theDepartment of Labor issued a new rule that would raise the salary threshold at which workers canbe exempt from mandatory overtime wages. The proposed rule raisedthe threshold, which was last raised in 2004, from $23,660 to$47,476.
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