Bad news from Labor Department’s new overtime rules

By Diana Furchtgott-Roth

Published May 20, 2016 4:03am ET

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Bad news from Labor Department’s new overtime rules — Studies have shown that raising the overtime pay ceiling will generally not raise workers' total pay. Instead, employers will pay a lower base salary so that the total pay packet is about the same. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) | Steven Senne

Moms, watch out. The Department of Labor has just announced new, complex rules on overtime pay, fulfilling President Obama’s 2014 promise to raise the salary level at which employers are required to pay overtime.

The rules, which will limit flexibility in the workplace, will double the existing $23,660 salary level at which employers have to pay overtime to $47,476, unless the employee is in a managerial or supervisory role.

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