{"id":1267,"date":"2016-05-22T22:06:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T03:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2016-05-22T22:06:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T03:06:42","slug":"overtime-and-fair-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"Overtime and Fair Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/gotovertime.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1268\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1268\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/gotovertime-300x84.gif\" alt=\"gotovertime\" width=\"300\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a>Ever sat at work on a weekend or late in the evening wondering why you didn&#8217;t qualify for overtime? \u00a0Salary threshold rules have not been adjusted for inflation since 1975 and currently reflect a maximum amount of $23,660 per year. \u00a0The new proposed changes to the law would raise this limit to $47,476 per year, allowing a larger segment of the salaried\u00a0population to qualify for paid overtime. \u00a0As this legislation is coming at the end of President Obama&#8217;s term, it remains to be seen how it will fare with a new administration, but for the moment this is one more step toward fair pay for a whole new set of employees.<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"headline\" class=\"headline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/19\/opinion\/making-overtime-fair-again.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&amp;smid=nytcore-ipad-share\">Making Overtime Fair Again<\/a><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever sat at work on a weekend or late in the evening wondering why you didn&#8217;t qualify for overtime? \u00a0Salary threshold rules have not been adjusted for inflation since 1975 and currently reflect a maximum amount of $23,660 per year. \u00a0The new proposed changes to the law would raise this limit to $47,476 per year, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1267\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Overtime and Fair Pay<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[370,638,640,641,636,637,642,639,643],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-resources","category-personal-finances","tag-employees","tag-fair-pay","tag-inflation","tag-legislation","tag-overtime","tag-overtime-pay","tag-president-obama","tag-salary","tag-salary-threshold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}