Obama’s legacy won’t go into overtime

Published November 26, 2016 5:01am ET



A federal judge in Texas this week blocked President Obama’s new overtime rule, which was supposed to go into effect next Thursday. That’s one more thing Americans can be thankful for this season.

The new rule would have affected nearly all American businesses, doubling the salary threshold at which workers must be presumed to qualify automatically for time-and-a-half pay if they work more than 40 hours a week.

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