Obama to order expansion of overtime pay for millions of workers

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President Obama, flexing his executive authority once again, plans to order the Labor Department to expand overtime pay requirements to include millions more workers -- in a move likely to rankle the business community.

The president plans to make the announcement on Thursday at the White House, a senior administration official confirmed to Fox News. Though the administration has claimed previous executive actions had bipartisan support, officials are acknowledging that this particular move will anger business groups and congressional Republicans.

But the announcement would appear to dovetail with Democrats' election-year strategy of focusing on income inequality and the middle class.

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