The Bush administration’s final overtime regulations went into effect Aug. 23, 2004. Those changes in the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act gutted the overtime pay protection rules for millions of professional, service and industry workers. Workers who no longer are protected by overtime pay laws include “team leaders,” shift supervisors and assistant managers, chefs, computer employees, registered nurses, insurance claims adjusters and workers in the financial services industry.

Activists in several states have succeeded in moving legislation to protect overtime pay for workers’ whose pay has been cut as a result of the misguided Bush regulations. The state actions preserve the provisions of the rule, which expanded overtime eligibility to a small number of workers not previously covered.

Learn more about the Bush administration’s attack on overtime pay.