The Washington Department of Labor and Industries will host a public hearing Thursday in Vancouver about proposed changes to the state’s overtime rules.
A pre-hearing overview will be from 9 to 10 a.m., followed by the public hearing from 10 a.m. to noon in Event Rooms A and B at the Clark College Columbia Tech Center, 18700 S.E. Mill Plain Blvd.
The proposed rule changes would update the minimum salary threshold used to determine if employees are “exempt” from receiving overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours in a week.
Washington’s current salary threshold is equivalent to $13,000 per year. The proposed update would raise it to 2.5 times state’s minimum hourly wage, which is set annually based on the Consumer Price Index, starting in 2021.
The proposed rule change was unveiled in June. The agency expects to adopt a final version of the rule change in late 2019.
