Starting December 1, churches and other ministries will be required to pay overtime to full-time, salaried support staff making less than about $48,000 a year.
That means employees such as church secretaries or janitors must be paid 1.5 times their normal rate for any time they put in beyond 40 hours a week.
The announcement from the Department of Labor (DOL) could affect more than 4 million of the country’s full-time, salaried work force. But it probably won’t, because 60 percent of them don’t work any overtime, the Los Angeles Times reported. Instead, the rule should only affect about 1 percent of American workers....