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Overtime pay for up to 190K workers died in Harrisburg this summer. Why aren’t more people upset?

Only salaried workers who earn up to $35,568 are automatically guaranteed the benefit, which allows them to earn time-and-a-half pay for any time they work beyond 40 hours in a week.

By An-Li Herring/WESA

Pennsylvania to expand overtime pay eligibility

Advocates for the poor and groups affiliated with organized labor supported Wolf’s regulation, but also said the expansion still leaves workers with far less earning power than they had decades ago.

By Marc Levy/The Associated Press

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Despite GOP’s attempts to compromise, Wolf says he’s not abandoning overtime plan

The governor wants to require that time-and-a-half be paid to anyone who makes $45,000 or less and works more than 40 hours in a week.
By Katie Meyer/WITF

Pennsylvania governor’s OT expansion rule heads to a vote

Gov. Tom Wolf is scaling back a proposal to extend overtime pay eligibility to thousands of workers in Pennsylvania, and his administration on Thursday put it on a path to a vote within weeks over the protests of business groups.

By Marc Levy/The Associated Press
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