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Overtime rules in Michigan remain the same, requiring that employers pay nonexempt employees 1 ½ times their regular rate of pay for hours worked over 40 in a seven-day work week.
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Paula Wethington, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
The premium is the amount that exceeds your regular rate of pay for those overtime hours worked.
—Susan Tompor, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
The rate of pay also slowed, with workers staying in their jobs seeing a 4.4% year-over-year increase, down 0.1 percentage point from October.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 3 Dec. 2025
The child welfare workers and the social service workers are both social workers and had received the same rate of pay prior to the equity increase in 2022.
—Richard Halstead, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
But this rate of pay often doesn't stretch far enough for workers near the bottom.
—Russ Wiles, AZCentral.com, 27 Aug. 2025
The employee would still be taxed at normal rates on their regular rate of pay.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
According to the criminal complaint, Newell committed wage theft by failing to pay employees at his company at the rate of pay required by law.
—Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 9 June 2025
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Paula Wethington, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
The premium is the amount that exceeds your regular rate of pay for those overtime hours worked.
—Susan Tompor, USA Today, 4 Dec. 2025
The rate of pay also slowed, with workers staying in their jobs seeing a 4.4% year-over-year increase, down 0.1 percentage point from October.
—Jeff Cox, CNBC, 3 Dec. 2025
The child welfare workers and the social service workers are both social workers and had received the same rate of pay prior to the equity increase in 2022.
—Richard Halstead, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
But this rate of pay often doesn't stretch far enough for workers near the bottom.
—Russ Wiles, AZCentral.com, 27 Aug. 2025
The employee would still be taxed at normal rates on their regular rate of pay.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 12 July 2025
According to the criminal complaint, Newell committed wage theft by failing to pay employees at his company at the rate of pay required by law.
—Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 9 June 2025
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