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Federal Court Blocks Overtime Rule
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | November 23, 2016
From WisPolitics.com …
Attorney General Brad Schimel is praising a federal court ruling blocking a new employee overtime rule that had been set to take effect on Dec. 1.
Wisconsin was among the 21 states that sued to overturn the Obama administration rule, which doubles the threshold for when full-time salaried employees are no longer automatically eligible for overtime pay. Currently, employees are automatically eligible for overtime unless they make more than $23,660 a year, but the rule would lift that to $47,476.
Judge Amos Mazzant, a federal judge in Texas and Obama appointee, issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against the rule, saying the Department of Labor exceeded its authority in crafting the rule and that the states would likely succeed in their lawsuit.
Schimel said he’s “incredibly happy the Court agreed the rule should be put on hold.”
“There’s no greater honor than representing millions of Wisconsinites in the continuous fight for the return of power to our citizens, away from an out-of-control federal bureaucracy in Washington D.C. Wisconsin must have the ability to set its own priorities and policies,” Schimel said.
See the release here.
See an earlier story on the overtime rule here.
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