Overtime ruling may cost Kimball County employers

Updated overtime regulations are meant to make the rules easy enough for everyone to understand and the final rule, announced on May 18, aims to put more money in the pockets of middle class workers or give them more free time.

These new rules will automatically extend overtime pay guards for more than four million American workers within the first year and positions that are currently exempt from overtime pay will be converted to non-exempt positions and become eligible for overtime pay.

To what end?

“This will have a negative impact on (Kimball) County’s budget,” Kimball County Cler...