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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR | NEW OVERTIME RULE FOR SALARIED EMPLOYEES
Clock ticking for opponents Deadline delay resolution passes House; states file lawsuit BY PAM EGGEMEIER peggemeier@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5570 @pam_eggemeier
The movement to delay or block the implementation of the U.S. Department of Labor’s new overtime rule for salaried workers is making progress, but time is running out. The rule that could affect an estimated 4.2 million workers
is set to kick in Dec. 1. It was announced in May, leaving employers scrambling to prepare for compliance. The rule raises the salary threshold for overtime pay for the first time since 2004. Every salaried worker earning less than $47,476 will be eligible for overtime pay, regardless of their duties. What is known as the white-collar exemption had
applied to salaried workers making more than $23,660 a year. Creating even more anxiety for employers is a provision that requires regular salary threshold increases every 3 years, beginning in 2020. The Labor Department said the new regulations, ordered by the White House, aim to tip the scales more in favor of workers after the loosening of the law
resulted in management taking advantage of exemptions definitions. The department said the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime regulations protected more than 60 percent of fulltime workers 40 years ago, but the rules covered fewer than 10 percent of those workers prior to the latest changes. OPPONENTS continued on A54
THE PEOPLE’S VOICE | DOROTHY JACOBS OF STERLING
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State opposition The attorney generals in Texas and Nevada filed lawsuits against the U.S. Department of Labor Sept. 20. The other 19 states represented in the litigation are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, and Wisconsin.
EDUCATION | FINANCIAL AID
Students can now file for funding
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Longtime local teacher nears 100th birthday
Sauk president: No movement from state on MAP funds
christopher HEIMERMAN Heimerman is the Enterprise Projects Editor at Sauk Valley Media. He can be reached at cheimerman@ saukvalley. com or 815-625-3600, ext. 5523.
BY CHRISTOPHER HEIMERMAN cheimerman@saukvalley.com 815-625-3600, ext. 5523 @CHeimerman_SVM
L
ong before learning standards and assessments, Dorothy Jacobs mastered an art that educators constantly strive merely to grasp: individualized education. At least one of her secondgraders, the late Julie (Van Drew) Dalton, told her so during the ‘50s, while working on a creative writing assignment. “She wrote, ‘Ms. Jacobs loves all of us,’” Jacobs said. “That’s what my intentions were starting out. I wanted to help each child. I tried to give each of them what they needed.” Jacobs, who will turn 100 on Dec. 2, taught more than 40 years, from her cozy beginnings in single-room country schools in the mid-’30s through 29 years at Lincoln School in Sterling. She retired after the 1977-78 school year, but when Christ Lutheran School opened in 1983, Jacobs taught and tutored there more than 20 years, into her 90s.
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Dorothy Jacobs, 99, of Sterling, recalls all the different schools she taught in through the years. She began teaching at 19 in Swan Lake School south of Rock Falls, and taught in a few country schools, and didn’t give up tutoring with Christ Lutheran School until age 90.
Online extra Click on this story at saukvalley.com to get a look into Dorothy Jacobs’ photo album that chronicles her long teaching career in Sterling. One of four sisters, she grew up on the family farm about 10 miles north of Sterling. From the time she pulled up a chair at Talbott School as a student, she knew what she wanted to be when she grew up.
“I wanted to be a teacher since, I guess since I started school,” Jacobs said. “I always thought I could solve teachers’ problems, and that I knew what I would do if I were the teacher, and how I
would take care of the situation.” After attending Northern Illinois University a couple of years, she started teaching at Swan Lake School south of Rock Falls at age 19, where she’d ply her craft for 7 years, even seeing one student all the way through: the late Frances Plautz. LESSONS continued on A34
DIXON – It’s hardly breaking news, but planning for college isn’t easy, and the cost of higher education makes for some tough decisions. Starting with the 2017-18 school year, however, students and their families can find out sooner Daivd than ever how Helmich much financial Sauk Valley aid they’ll have Community at their disposal. College That is, if they president take advantage of the earlier filing period for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form. Filing began Oct. 1. In years past, filing began Jan. 1 for the following school year. Ready for the potentially bad news? There have been no indications that Monetary Assistance Program grant funds are being allocated this semester, Sauk Valley Community College President Dave Hellmich said. “There seems to be nothing moving in Springfield at all,” he said. “I think they’re sort of in timeout until after the election.” FUNDING continued on A44
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VOLUME 9 ISSUE 6 52 Pages
Today: 66/45 For the forecast, see Page A11
Business
Positive Changes Acupuncture helps to relieve patients’ chronic pain. See Page C1
Community Musicians and entertainers were only part of the fare at the Olde English Faire near Oregon last weekend. An SVM photo page explores the rest. See Page C12
Index Births................. C5
Lottery............... A2
Business............ C1
Markets........... A11
Classified........... B7
Obituaries.......... A4
Comics.............. B6
Opinion.............. A6
Community...... C12
Scoreboard....... B4
Crossword Saturday............ B9
Scrapbook........ C3
Crossword Sunday.............. C8
Support groups... C5
Dave Ramsey.... C1
Weather........... A11
Dear Abby......... C6
Wheels............ B12
Sports............... B1 Travel............... C10