“If you work overtime, you should actually get paid for working overtime,” vice-president Joe Biden said. The “duties test” is a set of requirements that salaried workers must meet in order to be exempt from overtime pay. While the White House won’t adjust the duties test, it is clarifying it in hopes of expanding overtime pay to more workers. Biden and Perez both pointed out that some US workers are misclassified as supervisors and miss out on overtime pay. Previously, only salaried workers who earned below $23,660 were eligible for overtime pay.

Source: The Guardian May 17, 2016 18:30 UTC