Age Bias Award

The Labor Department, stating that the current minimum wage and overtime pay laws are antiquated, is seeking to revamp the standards for paying overtime pay. Currently, overtime pay must be paid at an hourly rate of time-and-a-half for each hour worked in a week over 40 hours. Exemptions from paying overtime are only available for employees who meet stringent criteria based on salary, management, administrative and other responsibilities. The AFL-CIO and other labor unions are afraid the change would hurt workers since the overtime pay requirements help limit excessive work hours.

--The Labor Department (2/10/03)

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