The Overtime Compensation Amendment would reverse recent regulatory changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 that limit American workers’ right to be paid overtime. On April 23, 2004, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued regulations that would deny overtime pay to millions of middle-class employees earning $65,000 or more. The DOL also changed technical definitions of eligibility for overtime, making it possible for companies to reclassify salaried workers making between $23,660 and $100,000 without changing their actual job duties, newly depriving these middle-class workers of overtime pay. Another rule change would deny overtime pay to employees with certain advanced education or specialized training. While the DOL concluded that the eligibility modifications would affect only 1.3 million workers currently receiving time-and-a-half, according to an independent study, six million American workers would be affected by the changes. The DOL rule changes do extend new overtime guarantees to some low-income workers, although this extension has a number of loopholes enabling employers to dodge the protections. The House amendment is attached to the appropriations bill for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, while an identical amendment in the Senate is attached to the American Jobs Creation Act, a corporate tax cut bill. Although both bills that incorporated the overtime amendments were signed into law, the overtime pay provisions from the amendments were stripped out before final passage.