SAF fall in 92 other organization as part of the Partnership to Protect Workplace Opportunity ( PPWO ) concretion , which urged Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh to empty or at least postpone consideration of change to the U.S. Department of Labor ’s ( Labor Department ) overtime regulation under the Fair Labor Standards Act .
DOL last updated the overtime regulations three years ago , adapt the case of positioning that qualify for overtime as well as the minimal salary that employer must ante up employee for them to qualify for the white - collar and the highly compensated exemptions to the Union overtime pay requirements . How employee are categorized ( salaried versus hourly , or non - exempt versus exempt ) and the leave overtime rules that utilize to each class shock employer ’ ability to recruit and keep on employees and social organization welfare plans .
With current workforce famine , supply chain disruptions , and inflation pushing business sector operable price higher , the Society of American Florists debate that now is not the right time to change overtime pay rules .
PPWO notes in a varsity letter to Walsh that employees and employer are best served with a system of rules that promote maximum flexibility in structuring employee hours , career procession opportunities for employees , and clarity for employer when classify employee . Given that the overtime regulations were line up three age ago , the timing “ strongly suggest there is no indigence for urgency in issue more changes , ” the varsity letter say .
The letter also highlighted the current Department of Labor challenge business concern face : provision chain of mountains challenges , Department of Labor shortages , and the prospect of both inflation and a recessional . “ Many businesses are not well - positioned to soak up young undertaking price associated with changes to the overtime pay regulations , and such changes would only aggravate the difficulties business are currently facing , ” the letter states .
DOL ’s Wage and Hour Division is presently host a series of listening sessions to hear the world ’s feedback on the current overtime regulations . Employers and PPWO have been vocal during those listening sessions , calling on DOL to abandon or at least postpone thoughtfulness of changes to overtime dominion “ until the current economical state of affairs stabilizes and ameliorate to earmark the American workforce , employer biotic community , and DOL itself to more fully understand how the pandemic has pitch the paradigm of work in America . ”
SAF will continue to monitor the DOL ’s process and work with PPWO to advocate for no changes to the current overtime normal .
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