Tens of thousands of Alabama workers are expected to qualify for overtime pay under new federal rules that will start to take effect July 1.
By 2025, about 4.3 million Americans, including 66,000 workers in Alabama, will be newly eligible, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank based in Washington, D.C.
“Workers could be affected possibly in a lot of different types of industries,” said Samantha Sanders, director of government affairs at the Institute, “but I think you’re most likely to see it in salary workers in white collar jobs who are kind of on the lower end of the pay scale,”