1. Do you think that the Department Of Labor needs to raise the minimum salary that an employee must make before an employee can be deemed exempt from laws requiring overtime pay? Or do you think that relying upon an employee's actual duties and responsibilities is a sufficient basis (so the minimum salary level is not an essential element) fordetermining whether an employee must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a week?

2. If the Obamaregulations had gone into effect, how might this have changed the hiring/retention practices of private business in the United States?