The rules taking effect Wednesday will raise the threshold – from $33,000 to $36,000 a year – at which salaried employees must be paid overtime for working more than 40 hours a week.
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Auburn council debates Fire Department overtime conundrum
AUBURN — A working group formed to study the perennial issue of Fire Department overtime costs told the City Council on Monday that costs are driven mostly by the current collective bargaining agreement. The study said that while there will be an ongoing effort to reduce overtime costs, the city should also consider a more […]
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Maine State Police troopers raking in overtime pay
Maine State Police overtime has increased by nearly 30 percent over the last five years and those extra hours appear to be more heavily concentrated than ever before, according to an analysis of state payroll data. The average overtime pay per state police employee was $16,133 last year, up from $12,597 per employee in 2013. […]
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Minimum-wage increase means more overtime pay
LEWISTON — One little-noticed provision of the minimum wage increase approved by voters last month is that it will expand the number of Maine workers eligible for overtime after they log 40 hours in a week. During the campaign, nobody paid much attention to the overtime change because officials and businesses thought a proposed federal […]
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Court blocks new federal overtime rules
LAS VEGAS — In a blow to the Obama administration’s labor-law plans, a federal court has blocked the start of a rule that would have made an estimated 4 million more American workers eligible for overtime pay heading into the holiday season. As a result of Tuesday’s ruling, overtime changes set to take effect Dec. […]
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Gov. Paul LePage joins effort to block overtime rules
AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage has signed on to a legal complaint by 21 states against new overtime rules proposed by the U.S. Department of Labor. According to the LePage administration, the new rules would mean that all salaried employees who earn less than $47,500 a year would be eligible for overtime pay. That […]
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Overtime rules get mixed reaction in Maine
PORTLAND — A new law raising the salary level at which workers can claim overtime would directly affect at least 16,000 people in Maine, drawing praise from labor groups and criticism from the state’s retail association and others. The U.S. Department of Labor reported the law would directly affect 16,000 workers in Maine and 4.2 […]
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New rules could boost overtime for millions of workers
COLUMBUS, Ohio — More than 4 million U.S. workers will become newly eligible for overtime pay under rules issued Wednesday by the Obama administration. The rule seeks to bolster overtime protections that have been eroded in recent decades by inflation. A diminishing proportion of workers have benefited from overtime regulations, which date to the 1930s […]
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New OT rules force small businesses to make hard choices
NEW YORK — The government’s new rules requiring overtime pay for millions of workers have small business owners facing some hard choices. The regulations being issued by the Labor Department Wednesday would double to $913 a week from $455 the threshold under which salaried workers must be paid overtime. In terms of annual pay, the […]
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Gov. Paul LePage files comment against rule change on overtime
AUGUSTA — Republican Gov. Paul LePage and other officials in Maine are opposing proposed changes to federal labor rules on the grounds that employment and small businesses will be negatively affected. The U.S. Department of Labor is taking public comments on proposed changes to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act until Friday. The proposal would […]