NEW YORK (AP) — The government's new rules requiring overtime pay for millions of workers have small business owners facing some hard choices.
The regulations being issued by the Labor Department Wednesday would double to $913 a week from $455 the threshold under which salaried workers must be paid overtime. In terms of annual pay, the threshold rises to $47,476 from $23,660. The rules take effect Dec. 1.
From Tom Brady to Giancarlo Stanton, a growing number of sports superstars are coming out in support of kids — from the youth level to varsity — playing multiple sports instead of dedicating the entire calendar to one sport.
The urge of parents to turn their kids into specialists is an understandable one in theory. We hear stories all the time of athletes who attribute their talent to hard work and hours in the gym. But hard work is a mindset that can be fed on a variety of fields and courts, and diversity is a better formula for success than potentially burning out a specific muscle group or a kid's love for a sport.
