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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.

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.

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.