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NALP Seeks Overtime Relief

dollar-1443244_1920 As a member of the Partnership to Protect Workplace Opportunity, NALP is working with a broad coalition of organizations and other business interest entities to seek a more common sense way to implement the Department of Labor’s  (DOL) new overtime rules. Recently, we joined with over 400 other stakeholders to send a letter to Congress in support of  S. 3464, legislation that would mitigate the impact of the overtime rule by phasing it in over several years rather than having the increase occur all at once.

If passed, the overtime salary threshold would be implemented in four stages over five years, starting with a substantial salary threshold increase to approximately $36,000 on December 1, 2016, followed by a “pause year” in 2017 to allow employers to review and adjust for the consequences of this new rule. Further increases to the salary level would occur annually thereafter, until reaching the final rule’s new threshold of $47,476 on December 1, 2020. Equally important is that the bill prohibits the final rule’s automatic increases to the salary threshold, yet allows the DOL to propose changes to overtime regulations in the future through the customary notice and comment process.

Currently, the new overtime rule is scheduled to take effect on December 1 of this year. NALP strongly believes that S. 3464 offers significant benefit to our nation’s small business owners while at the same time fulfilling DOL’s desire to greatly broaden the number of white-collar employees that qualify for overtime compensation. We will continue to work towards passage of S. 3464, while also seeking other means to soft the impact of the overtime threshold increase.