If you read the article it talks about exempt vs non-exempt and how salaried workers that make over $35,568 and do "higher-level work" are exempt from overtime. Those that are not exempt get 1.5x pay for overtime and 2x for double overtime (e.g. overtime on holiday). So in the US overtime is always 1.5x but many salaried workers simply don't get overtime.
That's some XIX-century level exploitation right there... As if the workers rights movements never happened in the US (or they did, but for some reason only for manual workers and not white collar).
