OVERTIME ASTA petitions Department of Labor for rule exemption

Posted on 08/11/2016 | About United States

ASTA on Friday filed a petition with the US Department of Labor, asking for travel agencies to be exempt from the department’s new overtime rule.

Effective Dec. 1, Labor has widened the number of salaried workers who are eligible for overtime pay (one-and-a-half times the regular hourly rate).The new maximum salary level at which full-time employees must be paid overtime will be US $47,476, more than double the previous salary level of $23,660. Thus, most salaried workers making $47,476 or less must receive overtime pay if they work more than 40 hours per week.