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Federal Judge Blocks Overtime Pay for Millions

November 23rd, 2016 by WCBC Radio

A federal judge blocked a new rule allowing millions of eligible Americans from collecting overtime pay. U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant in the Eastern District of Texas to grant a preliminary injunction that will affect an estimated 4.2 million workers who are now eligible for overtime wages, or time-and-a-half wages for each hour they work beyond the standard 40 hour week.

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