WASHINGTON -- If you're a salaried worker in the U.S., chances are you don't get paid overtime at your job, even if you work 100 hours a week and sleep on a dingy cot at the office. But thanks to looming federal reforms, you may soon find yourself earning time-and-half for all those hours clocked beyond 40 in a week. Whether you do is ultimately up to President Barack Obama. Last year, as part of his plan to raise wages through executive action, the president ordered the Labor Department to revi...
WASHINGTON -- If you're a salaried worker in the U.S., chances are you don't get paid overtime at your job, even if you work 100 hours a week and sleep on a dingy cot at the office. But thanks to looming federal reforms, you may soon find yourself earning time-and-half for all those hours clocked beyond 40 in a week. Whether you do is ultimately up to President Barack Obama. Last year, as part of his plan to raise wages through executive action, the president ordered the Labor Department to revi...
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