Updating and Modernizing Overtime Regulations

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 52 (Tuesday, March 18, 2014)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 15211-15212]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-06138]

Vol. 79

Tuesday,

No. 52

March 18, 2014

Part II

The President

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Memorandum of March 13, 2014--Updating and Modernizing Overtime
Regulations

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Title 3--
The President

Memorandum of March 13, 2014

Updating and Modernizing Overtime Regulations

Memorandum for the Secretary of Labor

The Fair Labor Standards Act (the ``Act''), 29 U.S.C.
201 et seq., provides basic rights and wage protections
for American workers, including Federal minimum wage
and overtime requirements. Most workers covered under
the Act must receive overtime pay of at least 1.5 times
their regular pay rate for hours worked in excess of 40
hours per week.

However, regulations regarding exemptions from the
Act's overtime requirement, particularly for executive,
administrative, and professional employees (often
referred to as ``white collar'' exemptions) have not
kept up with our modern economy. Because these
regulations are outdated, millions of Americans lack
the protections of overtime and even the right to the
minimum wage.

Therefore, I hereby direct you to propose revisions to
modernize and streamline the existing overtime
regulations. In doing so, you shall consider how the
regulations could be revised to update existing
protections consistent with the intent of the Act;
address the changing nature of the workplace; and
simplify the regulations to make them easier for both
workers and businesses to understand and apply.

This memorandum is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.

Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to impair
or otherwise affect the authority granted by law to a
department or agency, or the head thereof.

You are hereby authorized and directed to publish this
memorandum in the Federal Register.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, March 13, 2014.