The Obama administration Tuesday night released final rules -- feared by many higher education administrators but eagerly awaited by some employees -- that will require employers to make overtime payments to millions of workers who aren't now eligible. The administration also reiterated many exemptions in established law for higher education employees (those who can be seen as teachers). And those exemptions may disappoint some adjuncts, postdocs, graduate student employees and many research assistants who had hoped the new rules would increase their paychecks. Many postdocs who do not have significant teaching duties would now, in theory, be eligible for overtime. But the Obama administration endorsed efforts to raise their pay to levels where they would not be eligible.

May 18, 2016 ・ From Inside Higher Ed