All three branches of government took aim at increasing employee pay on Wednesday. At the executive level, several news outlets have reported that the President on Thursday will direct the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) to revise its long-standing overtime regulations. At the regulatory level, the DOL’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announced that it plans to re-issue a proposed wage rule for the H-2B temporary guest worker program that would likely increase the hourly wages for H-2B workers as well as for U.S. workers recruited in connection with the H-2B program. Finally, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) held a contentious hearing on the proposed Fair Minimum Wage Act, which would increase the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour and index it to inflation, as well as increase the hourly rate for tipped employees.
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