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Overtime Rules Could Impact Area Companies

Overtime Rules Could Impact Area Companies

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President Obama signed an executive order in March that would open up overtime pay to millions more workers.

Currently most workers making more than four hundred fifty five dollars a week are not eligible or about eighty eight percent of the US workforce.

Dave Owen, President of the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce and Industry says the order could catch a number of state companies…

 

Owen says if the rule is implemented, it could have impacts on companies and workers…

 

The proportion of workers not guaranteed overtime is up from eighty two percent in 2004 and thirty five percent in 1975.

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