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Biden Proposes Raising Wages for 3.6 Million People via Overtime Pay
The Labor Department on Wednesday proposed to extend overtime protection to 3.6 million salaried workers.Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, or FLSA, virtually all nonsupervisory salaried workers earning below a designated annual ceiling are entitled to time-and-a-half pay whenever they work in excess of 40 hours. For decades after the FLSA was enacted in 1938, the Labor Department kept that ceiling low enough that most salaried workers—as recently as the 1970s, 65 percent—qualified for overtime pay. But the Reagan administration, as part of its quiet repeal of the New Deal, stopped raising the ceiling, and as inflation accumulated, overtime coverage eventually applied to below 10 percent of

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