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Employment lawyers urge Massachusetts to update overtime salary thresholds and codify exemptions
Summary
Employment lawyers told lawmakers that Massachusetts should remove antiquated exemptions, update salary thresholds for executive/administrative/professional exemptions, and codify federal regulatory definitions into state law to protect middle‑class workers.
BOSTON — Attorneys with the Massachusetts Employment Lawyers Association asked the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development to advance legislation that would modernize the Commonwealth’s overtime rules, remove outdated exemptions and set a higher, inflation‑indexed salary test for exemptions.
Andrea Kramer and colleagues outlined House Bill 2166 and Senate Bill 1324, saying…
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