[ETERNAL WARMING]

Essentially, employees would be working more hours for the same pay.

And boy will that make the US productivity numbers look great.

[kingu]

I'm curious as to if the Fed regs on overtime trump the state regulations, or if they're just new baselines.

As for the Labor department publishing options, hardly a shocker there. But even if it were, all they are doing is publishing what would be published by third parties anyway. At least this gets everything out in the open and Congress can always amend the rules that they find offensive.