Labor pick Acosta says overtime rule needed update

Published March 22, 2017 4:02pm ET



Alexander Acosta, President Trump’s pick to head the Labor Department, told senators Wednesday that it was “unfortunate” that the threshold for when workers are due overtime pay went unadjusted for more than a decade before it raised last year by the Obama administration.

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