4.3 million workers could lose overtime protectionstimeline_event

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2025-05-15 · 1 min read · Edit on Pyrite

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Trump administration moves to revert to weak Trump-era overtime threshold ($35,568) from Biden's $58,656 rule, stripping overtime protections from 4.3 million workers per Economic Policy Institute. Project 2025 also proposes calculating overtime over 2-4 week periods instead of weekly, and substituting comp time for time-and-a-half pay, further eroding worker protections.