The overtime salary threshold has been allowed to erode so badly that today a worker earning less than the poverty threshold for a family of four still makes too much to be automatically eligible for overtime pay.
Tim Scott: “The overtime salary threshold has been allowed to erode so badly that today a worker earning less than the poverty…”
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Scott highlights the decline in overtime protections and its impact on low-income workers.
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