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Pennsylvania on track to expand overtime eligibility
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The Associated Press
AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File
(Harrisburg) — Governor Tom Wolf’s administration is on the brink of making Pennsylvania one of a handful of states to expand eligibility for overtime pay beyond federal thresholds.
The regulation won a final vote Friday from a state board.
Wolf, a Democrat, first proposed the regulation two years ago amid a repeated failure to persuade the Republican-controlled Legislature to raise Pennsylvania’s minimum wage.
The new overtime regulation is estimated to expand overtime pay eligibility to 82,000 workers in two years earning up to $45,500.
It was opposed by business groups.
Advocates say the expansion still leaves workers with far less earning power than they had decades ago.
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