Minimum wage issue confounds school districts
by Tanner Clinch | Arizona City Independent
Some school districts around Arizona are sitting in limbo due to a lawsuit filed by 21 states against the federal government, alleging that the Obama administration had overstepped its regulatory bounds by increasing the salary threshold where employers would have to start paying overtime.
Last month, the Toltec School District Governing Board approved increases for salaried employees so that they met the required federal minimum salary of $47,892 a year to avoid paying overtime, according to President Barack Obama’s executive order.
Before the order was issued, the federal minimum threshold where an employer had to pay salaried employees overtime for hours worked over 40 was roughly $23,000.
