Trump's Project 2025 suggests changing how overtime is calculated leading to reduced or no overtime pay at all for the same amount of total work hours.
Current rules say you should get overtime pay if you work more than 40 hours in a week. Project 2025 wants to change this so your overtime is averaged out over a longer time, like two weeks or a month.
Specifically, employers […] should be able to set a two- or four-week period over which to calculate overtime. This […] would not require the employer to pay [employees] more for that same total number of hours of work during the entire period.
Project 2025, page 592
This would allow employers to schedule you to work long hours during busy weeks and then cut your hours during slower times—with you ending up getting paid less overtime or not getting overtime pay at all.
![A set of bar graphs depicting the effects of overtime on a worker's paycheck. At the top, a snippet from Project 2025 reads: "Attention: Republican Agenda. Specifically, employers...should be able to set a two or four week period over which to calculate overtime. This...would not require the employer to pay [employees] more for that same total number of hours of work during the entire period."
Underneath on the left is a set of green bars depicting Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, and Week 4.
In Week One, there is a darker shaded section pointing out that the worker has worked more than 40 hours and is eligible for overtime.
Week 2 is a little less than 40 hours, and the last two weeks are normal (40 hours).
At the bottom of this set of bars, a summary reads: "You're paid overtime for EVERY week over time, regardless of other weeks."
On the right, a set of red bar graphs depicting Week 1 through 4. In Week 1, the employee has clearly worked more than 40 hours based on the long bar, but there is no overtime shading.
Week 2 is less than 40, and Week 3 and 4 are both 40.
At the bottom of this set of bars, a summary reads: "Your employer will AVERAGE weeks together...and you won't get paid."
A Republican win in November means: Same hours. No overtime.
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