Legislation & Policy

New Regulation Would Expand Overtime to 143,000 Workers

This week the Wolf administration announced the final submission of a regulation to expand overtime eligibility to 143,000 workers across Pennsylvania. Currently, overtime eligibility for salaried workers has been capped by the federal government at $23,660 a year, and many salaried workers do not realize that they can be eligible for overtime. Read More

ICYMI: Native Women’s Equal Pay Day

This week marked Native Women’s Equal Pay Day. In today’s America, Native American women must work until September 23, 2019 to make what a white man earned in the year 2018. That means that it takes a native woman to 21 months of income to equate to 12 months of a white man’s income, Native women make 58 cents on the dollar. Read More

Unions Hold Press Conferences Around PA, Call for Action on HB1082

Pennsylvania Workers and Their Unions Call For Action on Worker Safety and Health (HARRISBURG) — Today, workers and their unions, supported by local governments around the Commonwealth, held seven press conferences across the Commonwealth asking for action in the General Assembly on House Bill 1082 and Senate Bill 464. Events were held in Philadelphia, Scranton, Reading, Harrisburg, Ebensburg, Pittsburgh, and Erie. Read More