By the end of June, law firm staff and other U.S. workers should know whether the Trump administration wants them paid overtime pay for overtime hours, even if they haven’t qualified previously.
Their overtime status became unsettled when a Texas federal judge issued an injunction last November blocking an executive order signed by President Barack Obama. Effective December 2016, the order would have classified more employees, including many lower-paid law firm employees, as eligibile for overtime when they work more than 40 hours a week.
