Ross Eisenbrey, and expert in labor and employment law with the Economic Policy Institute, also called the court’s ruling “extreme,” noting that the Labor Department has set salary standards for overtime exemption since the 1930s.
CBS Moneywatch
November 23, 2016
“It is… a disappointment to millions of workers who are forced to work long hours with no extra compensation, and is a blow to those Americans who care deeply about raising wages and lessening inequality,” Ross Eisenbrey, an economist with the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, said in a statement.
Christian Science Monitor
November 23, 2016
The rule would make all workers who make between $23,660 and $47,476 eligible for overtime pay regardless of their duties. More than 12 million workers fall into that category, and of those about 4 million have managerial duties that currently make them exempt from overtime pay, according to Ross Eisenbrey, vice president of the liberal Economic Policy Institute.
CNN Money
November 23, 2016
The Labor Department said it “strongly disagreed” with the decision and was “considering all of our legal options,” raising the possibility of an appeal in the waning days of the Obama administration. Ross Eisenbrey of the Economic Policy Institute, whose writings on the subject helped shape the administration’s regulation, called the ruling “a disappointment to millions of workers who are forced to work long hours with no extra compensation.”
The New York Times
November 23, 2016
Ross Eisenbrey, vice president of the Economic Policy Institute, called the ruling “extreme and unsupportable” and “a clear overreach.” “For 78 years the Department of Labor has used salary as well as duties to determine overtime eligibility,” Eisenbrey said in a statement. “Congress has amended the [law] many times and has never objected to the salary test.”
Huffington Post
November 23, 2016
But Ross Eisenbrey of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, which supported the rule, called the decision “extreme and unsupportable.” “It is also a disappointment to millions of workers who are forced to work long hours with no extra compensation, and is a blow to those Americans who care deeply about raising wages and lessening inequality,” Eisenbrey said in a statement.
Reuters
November 23, 2016
About 4.2 million workers would be newly eligible for overtime, according to an analysis from the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think tank. The group estimated 120,000 new jobs would be created by employees looking to avoid paying time-and-a-half to existing employees.
Quartz
November 23, 2016
Liberal groups were swift to denounce Mazzant’s decision. “This is an extreme and unsupportable decision and is a clear overreach by the Court,” said Ross Eisenbrey, vice president of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, who helped the Labor Department develop the regulation. Eisenbrey called it “a disappointment to millions of workers who are forced to work long hours with no extra compensation” and “a blow to those Americans who care deeply about raising wages and lessening inequality.”
Politico
November 23, 2016
“When we think about the really big social benefits of infrastructure, we’re thinking precisely about the places that generally can’t afford it themselves and there isn’t a lot of profit,” noted Josh Bivens, research and policy director at the Economic Policy Institute. Under Trump’s plan, “Projects that are profitable will be undertaken and those without profit won’t be,” he added, which is “almost the exact reverse ordering where you get the big bang for the buck.”
Think Progress
November 23, 2016
What’s not clear from the plan is whether the credits would only be awarded for new projects, not ones already planned or under way. If there is no distinction, then it is “simply a way to transfer money to developers with no guarantee at all that net new investments are made,” the liberal Economic Policy Institute noted in a blog post.
CNN Money
November 23, 2016