New Overtime Rules Affect Thousands in Georgia

John Thompson was quoted in AJC on July 18, 2015. The article “New Overtime Rules Affect Thousands in Georgia” discussed how a proposed change in labor rules could force metro Atlanta employers to pay overtime to more workers who put in more than 40 hours a week.

John addressed why these new overtime rules might not be such good news from a worker standpoint.

All those possibilities make it impossible to guess how many workers will actually be pushed into non-exempt status, said John. “I am not sure anybody really knows except very generally.”

Supporters should not assume that the change will be good news from a worker standpoint, he warned.

“There are a lot of alternatives for how you may pay that person so that people may not wind up making much more money than they would have before.”

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