evidence: - Let employers avoid time-and-a-half pay: Project 2025 proposes allowing employers to substitute time off for traditional time-and-a-half pay. But giving employers more power would mean that they could prevent workers from using their banked paid time off, effectively eliminating overtime benefits of any kind. [...] - Contend that millions fewer workers should get overtime pay: The Trump administration’s overtime threshold was only $35,568 a year, or $684 per week. Beyond the many ways Project 2025 proposes reducing employee power in the overtime system, even just reverting to the former overtime pay rules put in place by the Trump administration would take overtime away from 4.3 million workers. "Project 2025’s far-right vision of overtime eligibility and benefits is designed to disempower workers," said Lily Roberts, managing director for Inclusive Growth at CAP and author of the column. "It would put more power in the hands of employers to exploit employees, which is seemingly part of Project 2025’s larger goal: pad corporate bottom lines at the expense of workers."