I’ve seen longer lists of claims about Project 2025, but Babs’ list above is a fairly representative sample. So, I thought I would go directly to the source.
I downloaded the PDF of Project 2025 to see for myself.
Allowing employers to not pay overtime
Going in order of the Streisand list, I first searched for every occurrence of “overtime.” To my surprise (not really), I found there was nothing about allowing employers to not pay overtime.
- It “would allow employees in the private sector the ability to choose between receiving time-and-a-half pay or accumulating time-and-a-half paid time off (a choice that many public sector workers already have).”
In other words, if an employee worked 42 hours in a week, at his discretion, he could elect to get paid for the normal 40 hours and either time and a half for the extra 2 hours or tack an extra 3 hours onto his vacation time. [Page 587] - Time and a half would be required for all hours worked on the Sabbath, whatever day the worker's religion defined as Sabbath. [Page 589]
- In “work from home” or “telework” situations, overtime would not occur until after 10 hours on a workday or 40 total for the week. The worker would not be required to record their working hours unless the quantity of work during a…
