{"id":13743,"date":"2017-09-06T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/premierfoodsafety_OLD\/?p=13743"},"modified":"2017-09-06T07:00:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T14:00:05","slug":"texas-judge-strikes-down-overtime-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/texas-judge-strikes-down-overtime-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Judge Strikes Down Overtime Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shortabstract\">\n<p id=\"abstract\">A judge in Texas vetoed a measure by the Federal Government to offer overtime for salaried workers who make under $47,476 a year. This law affected many restaurant workers including 85% of mangers nation wide. The decision was praised by the Restaurant Law center who stated that the Department of Labor  had overstepped its authority in drafting the law which they saw as draconian and unable to be executed. In the future Texas may reevaluate eligibility levels for such employees that perform the types of duties stipulated by this bill, but the financial fallout would affect corporations as well as make and incredible change to restaurant obligatory.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"readmoretext\">Read more: <\/span><a id=\"source\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qsrmagazine.com\/news\/texas-judge-strikes-down-overtime-rule\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas Judge Strikes Down Overtime Rule<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"task_trail\" style=\"display:none\">(abstract 3EHVO81VN5L2BOVKLVKZUM6ISHWH1O 3EKVH9QMEY4UBD67856PW4X9V77D2F AQJKK32QX6HSD)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge in Texas vetoed a measure by the Federal Government to offer overtime for salaried workers who make under $47,476 a year. This law affected many restaurant workers including 85% of mangers nation wide. The decision was praised by the Restaurant Law center who stated that the Department of Labor had overstepped its authority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}