A new federal law will make 61,000 workers in Pennsylvania eligible for overtime pay of time and a half beginning Jan. 1, according to a release from the state Department of Labor and Industry. People who are eligible include: Most hourly employees who work more than 40 hours per week, most salaried employees who work more than 40 hours per week and earn less than $684 per week/$35,568 per year are eligible for overtime, regardless of their job duties, and most salaried employees who are not engaged in an executive, administrative or professional capacity, regardless of how much they are paid.

For more information on the new overtime rule, call 1-800-932-0665 (L&I’s Bureau of Labor Law Compliance), visit dli.pa.gov.