Dawn worked 70 hours a week and didn’t earn overtime. It’s time to fix this.
Channel: Economic Policy Institute
Date: 2015-06-12

http://fixovertime.org/epi/

Dawn Hughey was a manager at Dollar General in Flint, MI from 2009–2011. Because she was a manager and received a salary of more than $23,660, she was not entitled to receive overtime pay—even when she was required to work 60-70 hour work weeks.

Hear Dawn’s story and learn why we need to raise overtime pay for millions of workers.

Thumbnail photo by Flickr user Mike Mozart.