http://www.redstate.com/jaycaruso/2016/ ... pay-rules/
The rule, issued by the Labor Department, was to take effect Dec. 1 and would have doubled to $47,500 the maximum salary a worker can earn and still be eligible for mandatory overtime pay. The new threshold would have been the first significant change in four decades.
While most people probably agree that for the ceiling for OT does need to be raised some, this across the board raise would have been a real jobs and small business killer because of the following:
On Tuesday, Mazzant, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, ruled that the federal law governing overtime does not allow the Labor Department to decide which workers are eligible based on salary levels alone.
The Fair Labor Standards Act says that employees can be exempt from overtime if they perform executive, administrative or professional duties, but the rule “creates essentially a de facto salary-only test,” Mazzant wrote in the 20-page ruling.
You can bet that the Trump Administration will drop this appeal.
Voting for Trump is dumber than playing Russian Roulette with fully loaded chambers.