
California Employers: Prepare for New Overtime Rules Effective December 1, 2016
On May 18, 2016, President Obama and Secretary Perez announced the Department of Labor’s final rule updating overtime regulations, to the disappointment of many employers. The new rule, which will automatically provide overtime pay protections to over four million workers within its first year of implementation, goes into effect on December 1, 2016. The Department published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in the Federal Register on July 6, 2015 (80 FR 38515) and in