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Houston Chronicle by Eli Rosenberg 9/24/2019

Workers making less than $35,500 are now entitled to mandatory overtime pay from their employers, under new rules announced by the Department of Labor Tuesday. The new rules will take effect at the beginning of 2020.

The rules raise the salary threshold for workers for whom overtime pay - 1.5 times a worker's typical hourly rate - is required from $23,600, a standard set in 2004 during the George W. Bush presidency.

The Department of Labor under President Barack Obama tried to raise the threshold to $47,000, a shift that would have given overtime pay to four million additional workers. But that proposal was met with strong opposition from business groups like the Chamber of Commerce, as well as Republicans.

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