Overbama — an interfering president on overtime

Let's say you just realized that you'll need to leave work an hour early on Friday to have time to get to your son's school play.

No worries, your boss is reasonable, so you approach him with a plan: You'll make up the hour by staying later than usual on the first of the month, the next day you have a free evening.

"Sure," he says. And everyone lives happily ever after.

But wait, the federal government is on the line. Some busybody from the Department of Labor is telling you that you and your boss aren't allowed to come to this agreement.

From the beginning of December, the mutually-agreed swap with your boss probably won't be legal if you make less than $47,476 a year. It's not your boss's fault, it's President Obama's.