Economy May 18 Watch 2:34 ‘When you work extra, you should be paid extra,’ says Labor Secretary By PBS NewsHour
Economy May 17 Obama administration extends overtime protections to 4.2 million workers If you’re a salaried employee who makes under $47,476 a year, you will now be paid time and a half for every hour you work over 40 hours a week. By Kristen Doerer
Economy Jan 08 Watch 7:12 Hiring got a bounce in 2015, while wages stayed flat The U.S. economy added 2.6 million jobs overall in 2015, part of a two-year gain that was the best since the late '90s. Yet wage growth remained relatively slow. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez explores the final jobs report of… By PBS NewsHour
Economy Jun 30 Watch 8:53 ‘Managers used to be middle-class jobs’: Labor Secretary Perez on expanding overtime pay President Obama is calling for a substantial expansion of who’s eligible to earn overtime pay. His proposal would the lift the salary cap to $50,000 for all workers, even managers and executives. But many businesses have said the president’s idea… By PBS NewsHour
Jun 30 Labor Secretary Perez: government unions have the right to require members to pay their ‘fair share’ By News Desk and Associated Press Weighing in on the Supreme Court's decision to hear a dispute over union fees in the public sector, Labor Secretary Thomas Perez told the NewsHour's Judy Woodruff that states have appropriately said that you can require people to pay their… Continue reading
Feb 15 Watch 3:37 Is the economic impact of the labor disputes at West Coast ports just hype? By PBS NewsHour A labor dispute between shipowners and longshoreman on the West Coast has been going on for months now. This weekend, the president dispatched labor secretary Thomas Perez to California to try to resolve it. For more, economist Christopher Thornberg joins… Continue watching
Feb 15 Labor secretary to mediate West Coast port dispute By Associated Press President Barack Obama is sending his labor secretary to California to meet with both sides in a contract dispute that has affected the flow of goods from Asia into West Coast ports. Continue reading
Nov 09 If the economic news is good, why did voters say it’s bad? By Simone Pathe Two-thirds of voters told exit pollsters last week that the economy was getting worse. And yet, Friday's jobs report marked the ninth straight month of job gains over 200,000 and the lowest unemployment rate since the summer of 2008. Continue reading
Sep 03 Watch Labor Secretary Perez: ‘Level Playing Field’ Needed for American Workers Labor Secretary Perez: 'Level Playing Field' Needed for American Workers… Continue watching