NEW JERSEY COPS ■ MAY 2014
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A push to improve overtime rules for cops
On April 29, Bill Johnson, Executive Director of the National Association of Police Organiza- The
tions, wrote a letter to the Secretary of Labor and
the Department of Labor’s Principal Deputy
Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division to
Representing
urge that overtime rules for law enforcement be
America’s Finest
improved.
Johnson referenced the President’s March 13
memorandum, which directed the Department of Labor to
update regulations regarding who qualifies for overtime protection. In so doing, the department is to consider how the regulations could be revised to:
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Update existing protections in keeping with the intention of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
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Address the changing nature of the Ameri