Economic Policy Institute

Last Friday, the United Auto Workers (UAW) scored a historic win in the South after a decade-long campaign to organize a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee.

https://www.epi.org/blog/recapping-a-great-week-for-workers/

The U.S. Department of Labor issued a final rule today making changes to the regulations about who is eligible for overtime pay.

https://www.epi.org/blog/explaining-the-department-of-labors-new-overtime-rule-that-will-benefit-4-3-million-workers/

Today, the U.S. Department of Labor published the final rule to raise the salary threshold for exemption from overtime pay. “We are thrilled to see the final rule issued to update overtime prot...

https://www.epi.org/press/epi-president-heidi-shierholz-welcomes-department-of-labor-final-rule-to-raise-overtime-threshold/

Submitted electronically on November 7, 2023 via Amy Division of Regulations, Legislation, and Wage and Hour U.S. Department of Room 200 Constitution Avenue Washington, DC Re: RIN 1235-AA39, WHD-...

https://www.epi.org/publication/epi-comments-on-dols-proposed-overtime-rule/

After a long and hard struggle, farmworkers in New York State recently won the right to overtime pay after a 40-hour workweek.

https://www.epi.org/blog/victory-on-overtime-for-new-york-farmworkers/

This op-ed was originally published in the Times Farm workers have long demanded overtime pay that kicks in after working 40 hours a week, just like other workers get.

https://www.epi.org/blog/overtime-pay-will-help-not-hurt-new-yorks-farms/

What this report finds: In recent years, cities, counties, and other localities have become innovators and leaders in standing up for working people.

https://www.epi.org/publication/the-role-of-local-government-in-protecting-workers-rights-a-comprehensive-overview-of-the-ways-that-cities-counties-and-other-localities-are-taking-action-on-behalf-of-working-people/

The overtime threshold is intended to prevent employers from exploiting lower-paid white-collar salaried workers, but at $455 per week in 2016 (or $23,660 for a full-year worker), it wasn’t doi...

https://www.epi.org/publication/the-court-decision-invalidating-the-2016-overtime-rule-was-based-on-fundamentally-flawed-economic-logic/

Dear Members McDuffie, Hughes, and I am writing to provide you testimony in your capacity as Members of the Farm Laborers Wage Board (hereinafter “Wage Board”), which is now considering wheth...

https://www.epi.org/publication/ny-state-farm-laborers-wage-board-testimony-on-overtime-threshold/

Teachers and the Fair Labor Standards The Fair Labor Standards Act requires employers to pay workers one-and-a-half times their normal hourly rate for each hour they work above 40 hours in a week...

https://www.epi.org/publication/expanding-overtime-protection-for-teachers-under-the-fair-labor-standards-act/