Millions More Workers to Get Overtime Pay Under Biden Plan

More than 3 million workers would be newly eligible for overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours a week, under a new proposal from the US Department of Labor.

The highly-anticipated proposed rule, announced Wednesday by the Biden administration, would expand time-and-a-half pay protections to more workers by changing the exemptions to overtime eligibility under the Fair Labor Standards Act, a change that it says will boost workers’ economic security. But business groups already are pushing back on whether it will achieve those goals.