Weil: Trump Can’t Easily Erase Overtime Rule

By Ben Penn, Bloomberg BNA

Employers should be ready for the overtime rule to take effect Dec. 1, regardless of what may happen under President-elect Donald Trump, Wage and Hour Division Administrator David Weil told Bloomberg BNA.

“Professors don’t cancel exams,” Weil said yesterday, when asked whether companies may consider waiting to see the next administration’s plans before they start to comply with new time-and-a-half pay requirements. “Let’s get on with this and move forward, and treat workers the way they should be treated.”

It’s not clear how Trump’s Wage and Hour Division will handle the new rule, which expands ...