Expect Obama to Push for Expanded Overtime

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Today, President Obama is expected to direct the Department of Labor to use its rule-making authority to expand overtime coverage to more American workers.  Under overtime exemptions executive, professional, and administrative workers who earn more than $455 per week may be exempt from overtime pay if they meet certain job-related criteria.  

President Obama will likely ask the DoL to increase that weekly threshold which would increase the number of workers entitled to overtime pay.

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DoL Releases 2012 FMLA Survey Results on the Act’s 20th Anniversary

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The following is excerpted from the survey results.  The full reports can be found here, here, and here.

In 2012, Abt Associates surveyed 1,812 worksites and 2,852 employees about experiences with family and medical leave.  The worksite survey includes both sites that are covered by the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and those that are not covered.  The employee survey includes employees that took leave,

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