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Article: AFL-CIO Objects to Proposed Changes in Overtime Pay Rules.

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March 28, 2003
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By Diane Stafford, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 28--Major changes in the nation's overtime pay regulations were proposed Thursday that the Labor Department says would expand overtime pay protection to an estimated 1.3 million workers.

But the AFL-CIO contends that the proposals would strip at least that number of other workers of their rights to overtime pay.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division introduced a Bush administration plan to update overtime pay standards set by the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act and a section added to it in 1949.

There will be a 90-day public comment ...

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