WEEKLY ADDRESS: Expanding Overtime Pay (May 21, 2016)

奧巴馬每周電臺演講：增加加班工資

Hi everybody.  Last summer, I got a letter from a woman named Elizabeth Paredes from Tucson, Arizona.  Elizabeth is the mom of a 3-year-old boy, and an assistant manager at a sandwich shop.  She earns about $2,000 a month, and she routinely works some 50 hours a week, sometimes even more.  But because of outdated overtime regulations, she doesn’t have to be paid a dime of overtime.

大家好。上個夏天，我收到了來自亞利桑那州的塔克遜的一位名叫伊麗莎白?普拉迪斯的婦女的來信。伊麗莎白是一個三歲的男孩的母親，和一家三明治店的副店長。她的月工資大約為$2，000美元，每周照常工作大約50個小時，有時候可能更多。因為過時的加班法規，她得不到一毛錢的加班費。

She wrote: “It’s not easy work and requires a lot of time away from my son… at times I find [it's] not worth it.”

她寫道：“工作實在不容易，占用了我大量的陪兒子的時間……很多時候我感覺這個工作有點不值。”

Things like the 40-hour workweek and overtime are two of the most basic pillars of a middle class life.  But for all the changes we’ve seen in our economy, our overtime rules have only been updated once since the 1970s.  Just once.  In fact, forty years ago, more than 60 percent of workers were eligible for overtime based on their salaries.  But today, that number is down to seven percent.  Only seven percent of full-time salaried workers are eligible for overtime based on their income.

諸如每周工作40小時和加班費是中產階級生活的兩個最基本的支柱。但是我看到的我們的經濟中的所有改變中，我們的加班法規自1970年以來僅僅更新了一次。僅僅一次。事實上，四十年前，超過百分之60的工人可以獲得與他們的工資掛鉤的加班費。但是今天，這個數字降到了百分之7。僅僅百分之7的全職工人可以獲得與他們的工資掛鉤的加班費。

That’s why this week, my Administration took a step to help more workers get the overtime pay they’ve earned.  The Department of Labor finalized a rule to extend overtime protections to 4.2 million more Americans.  It’s a move that will boost wages for working Americans by $12 billion over the next 10 years.  We’re more than doubling the overtime salary threshold.  And what that means is, most salaried workers who earn less than about $47,500 a year will qualify for overtime.  Or, their employers can choose to give them a raise so that they earn more than $47,500.  Or, if employers don’t want to raise wages, they can let them go home after 40 hours and see their families or train for new jobs.  Any way you slice it, it’s a win for working families.  And we’re making sure that every three years, there will be an automatic update to this threshold – so that working families won’t fall through the cracks for decades at a time ever again.

這就是為什么本周，本屆政府采取了措施幫助更多的工人獲得他們理應得到的加班費。勞工部最終推出了規則把加班保護范圍再擴大4百20萬人。這是一個在未來10年里，為工薪階層增加$120億美元工資的動議。我們不僅使加班門檻翻翻。這意味著，大多數年收入低于$47，500美元的工人將有資格獲得加班費。或，他們的雇主可以選擇提高他們的工資以使他們的工資超過$47，500美元。或者，如果雇主不打算提高工資，他們可以在40小時工作后讓他們下班回家陪他們的家人或為新工作進行培訓。無論你怎么分配時間，對工薪家庭都是成功。我們將確保每過三年，這個加班門檻將自動更新—以使工薪家庭再也不會幾十年跳一次龍門。

This is the single biggest step I can take through executive action to raise wages for the American people.  It means that millions of hardworking Americans like Elizabeth will either get paid for working more than 40 hours, or they’ll get more time with their families.  Either way, they win.  The middle class wins.  And America wins.

這是我運用行政權力采取的最大一項措施為美國人民提高工資。這意味著幾百萬諸如伊麗莎白一樣的工薪階層，要么工資超過40小時就獲得加班費，要么他們可以有更多的時間陪家人。無論哪一種方式，他們都贏了。中產階級贏了。美國人民贏了。

We still have more work to do to make sure this economy works for everybody, not just those at the top.  That’s why I’ll never stop fighting for as long as I hold this office – to restore the sense that in America, hard work should be rewarded with the chance to get ahead.

我們還要再進一步，確保我們的經濟惠及每個人，不僅僅是最頂層的少數人。這就是為什么，只要我還是總統，我要繼續為在美國恢復這樣的意識—努力工作就會得到致富的機會。

Thanks everybody.  Have a great weekend.

謝謝各位。周末快樂。

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