In the past couple of days, Bryance Metheny, a Birmingham, Ala., labor attorney, has heard plenty from his manufacturing clients about the Department of Labor’s new proposal on overtime pay. “They’re up in arms about it,” says Metheny, who primarily represents manufacturing employers.
Metheny says he’s been advising his clients for a while, however, that “substantial changes” were coming. “We’ve been hearing about it for over a year, the new minimum salary threshold.”