Trump administration won’t save Obama-era overtime rule

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The Justice Department on Tuesday formally ended the Obama administration’s expansion of the federal overtime rule, by announcing it would not appeal a District Court’s ruling that said the government overreached when it expanded the number of people covered by the rule.

The decision formally kills one of the previous administration’s most far-reaching changes to labor regulations.

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