and prescribed certain dudies test for each of these exemption exemptions exemptions. that's where it's sat since 2004. what the president asked the labor democrat to do was take a look at the salary test, the duties test, anything else that might be relevant to updating these exemptions to determine whether or not white collar employees should be exempt from overtime pay requirements or if they work more than 40 hours a week, they should get overtime pay. that's exactly what the labor department's proposal does. it looks at -- it takes a very simple approach in establishing a bright line test that says in 2016 that an employee makes less than around $50,000 a year, that employees regardless of his or her duties would be eligible for overtime pay. above that bright line of $50,000 a year then the employer would have to apply these duty tests to see if they would be eligible for overtime pay or exempt exempt. >> this proposal, the nfib says may sound well meaning but could hurt workers. explain. >> yes. thank you for inviting me to be here today. like a lot of proposeal