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New OT rules force small businesses to make hard choices

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

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Obama’s new OT rules could further harm businesses

Small business owners, many of whom are currently adapting to recent state and local increases to the minimum wage and facing the prospect of even more dramatic mandatory wage increases in the future, may this summer be hit even harder with yet another government wage mandate. A proposed revision to

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As minimum wage marches toward $15, small businesses adapt

NEW YORK (AP) — In the aftermath of California and New York becoming the first states to raise the statewide minimum wage to $15, some small businesses with hourly workers are rethinking how they can absorb the increase. The owners of Dog Haus, a chain of about 20 franchise restaurants in