The National Newspaper Association today called on the US Department of Labor (DOL) to scale back its aggressive push to raise salary thresholds for exempt workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act. DOL has said it wants to more than double in a single year the salary basis by which professional, creative and administrative white collar workers are qualified as exempt.
NNA President John Edgecombe Jr., publisher of The Nebraska Signal, Geneva, NE, said NNA newspapers had expressed alarm at DOL’s surprisingly steep increase.