Workers earning less than about $35,500 per year will be eligible for overtime pay under the Department of Labor’s final overtime rule.
The agency said Sept. 24 that the new OT rule will become effective Jan. 1, 2020. The rule updates the earnings threshold to $684 per week, or equivalent to a $35,568 per year.
The current, 15-year-old threshold is $455 (or $23,660 per year).
The American Health Care Association has “concerns about the implications” of the rule, said Beth Martino, the group’s senior vice president of public affairs. The association previously called for a long-term care exemption.
“Many long-term and post-acute care centers are on the brink … making it very difficult for them to absorb this increase,” Martino told McKnight’s Long-Term Care News.
Cory Kallheim, LeadingAge’s vice president of legal affairs and social accountability, however, said the final rule “strikes a reasonable balance in updating Fair Labor Standards Act requirements.” The group had balked earlier.
From the November 2019 Issue of McKnight's Long-Term Care News
