Labor Department to Appeal Court Ruling Striking Down Obama-Era Overtime-Pay Rule

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This is a few days old. I didn't see it until now. It's subscription.

Obama overtime rule back from the dead? Not quite, says Labor Department.

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Labor Department to Appeal Court Ruling Striking Down Obama-Era Overtime-Pay Rule
Trump administration remains likely to significantly change regulations

By Eric Morath

Updated Oct. 27, 2017 6:43 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON—The Labor Department will appeal a judge’s ruling that struck down an overtime-pay rule authored by the Obama administration, a move designed to preserve the Trump administration’s authority to reshape the rule to its own liking.

By filing the appeal, the department is seeking to maintain Secretary Alexander Acosta’s ability to establish overtime regulations, a Labor Department official said Friday evening. The appeal shouldn’t be viewed as the Trump administration endorsing the threshold set in regulations issued...

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1. Alex Acosta looks like the photographers caught him stealing something.

They probably in fact did.