President Obama visits the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse on Thursday to detail a labor initiative that’s cheering workers at retail stores and restaurants while alarming their owners. By the time the president’s proposed change in federal rules on overtime pay could take effect next year, however, it might also generate similar divisions among college administrators and their workers. The basic thrust of the proposal is to raise, from $23,660 to $50,440, the annual salary cutoff below which workers are generally eligible for a time-and-a-half wage rate for work that exceeds 40 hours a week.

July 1, 2015 ・ From Chronicle of Higher Education