NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — More than a million American workers could become eligible for overtime pay if a new Trump administration proposal goes through.
This is a scaled-back version of a plan proposed by President Obama, but it never went into effect after the 2016 presidential election.
Right now, if you make below $23,660 a year you are required to be paid for overtime that you work.
The Obama Administration's proposal was to almost double the threshold to about $48,000 a year. That rule never went into effect but now the Trump Administration has released its plan, which is somewhere in the middle, for people who make up to $35,000 a year.
This new proposal would include about a million Americans, far less than the 8 million that would've been affected by the previous plan.
