Trump administration advances proposal to set overtime threshold lower than Obama plan

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The Trump administration began accepting public comments Friday on its plan to set the salary threshold for federal overtime rules lower than the Obama administration had proposed.

The plan would raise the cutoff for mandating time-and-a-half pay to $35,000 annually from the current level of $23,000.

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