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If you're an employee and you work more than 40 hours a week, you typically have the right to receive time-and-a-half overtime pay for those extra hours....more
On November 22, 2016, a federal court in the Eastern District of Texas issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Department of Labor from enforcing new regulations that would have drastically reduced the number of white...more
On November 22, 2016, District Judge Amos Mazzant, III issued a temporary injunction blocking enforcement of the Department of Labor’s new overtime rules that were set to go into effect December 1, 2016. That rule proposed to...more
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