The report calls for the following measures to be adopted as soon as possible: increase the number of district court judges and judges of other courts of first instance based on the immediate and medium-term needs; create administrative courts of first instance; and, introduce.
If you have a job that pays the federal minimum wage, an hour of your work is worth $7.25, before taxes. Activists and lawmakers from around the country say this amount and slightly higher state-based rates don't offer workers enough to pay for life's basics.
But the salary threshold under which workers are eligible to receive overtime pay is a mere $23,660 a year (or $455 a week). Anyone who makes more than this cannot receive overtime pay. Today, 1.57 times the median wage would be $1,050 a week, which is close to the administration's threshold of $970 a week. 2  In 1950 policy makers argued the salary threshold should be 25% higher than the entry-level wage of a college graduate. 3  Today, that would yield a threshold of $1,000 a week.