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Wage and Hour Exempt-Employees NPRM

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California Raises Software Employee Pay Minimums for Overtime Exemption

Beginning January 1, 2024, California employees may have to pay overtime to more computer software employees who earn less than $115,763.35 per year, or $55.58 per hour, or $9,646.96 per month....more

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Department of Labor Proposes an Increase to the FLSA Exempt Employee Salary Threshold; Is 2023(4) the New 2019 or 2017?

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On August 30, 2023 the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced the much anticipated Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) which, if implemented, would increase certain otherwise salary exempt employees’ compensation under...more

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Will the FLSA Regulations for Exempt Employees Apply to Puerto Rico Operations?

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On August 30, 2023, the United States Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to update and revise the regulations under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act regarding...more

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DOL Proposes Substantial Increases in Minimum Salary for Most Exemptions from Overtime Pay under the FLSA

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On August 30, 2023, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced its issuance of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”). In the NPRM, the DOL proposes to increase substantially the salary threshold for most employees to be...more

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Department of Labor issues notice of proposed rulemaking to increase salary threshold for FLSA exemptions

On August 30, 2023, the US Department of Labor (DOL) announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that it claims will “restore and extend overtime protections to 3.6 million salaried workers” throughout the United States....more

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The Biden Administration Issued Its Spring 2023 Regulatory Agenda . . . in (Late) Spring 2023! What’s in the Works for DOL...

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Seyfarth Synopsis: On June 13, 2023, the Biden Administration announced the release of its Spring 2023 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (the 2022 Fall Agenda was issued in January 2023). In connection...more

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DOL Moves Closer to Finalizing New Regulations on Overtime Exemptions for 2020

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The U.S. Department of Labor ("DOL") is one step closer to publishing final regulations on the FLSA's overtime exemptions for "white collar" workers in executive, administrative, and professional positions. The DOL published...more

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Three Proposed Regulations That Should Be on the Hospitality Industry's Radar

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The U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) has issued three sets of proposed regulations that significantly impact the Hospitality industry. ...more

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DOL Releases a Proposed Rule to Clarify the Types of Compensation that Employers Must Include in the Overtime Calculation

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On March 28, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released a proposed rule to amend the regulations at 29 CFR Part 778 to clarify and update the “regular rate” requirements under section 7(e) of the Fair Labor Standards...more

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Overtime Status Update: What the NPRM’s Publication Means for the Comment Period

Slightly more than two weeks after it announced its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to revise the part 541 overtime exemption regulations, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) published the...more

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How Employers Should Respond to the Trump Administration’s Proposed Overtime Rule

The proposed changes seek to formally rescind the Obama Administration’s 2016 Final Rule, which more than doubled the minimum salary levels for exemption for overtime requirements. Instead, the Trump Administration proposes...more

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog

New DOL Overtime Rule Impacts Manufacturers

The United States Department of Labor finally published its proposed regulation raising the minimum salary to be paid under the “white collar” exceptions to the Fair Labor Standards Act....more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Department of Labor Proposes Increase to FLSA Exemption Salary Threshold - California Public Sector Employers Would Feel the...

The Department of Labor issued a proposed rule to update and revise Fair Labor Standards Act regulations to implement minimum wage and overtime pay exemptions for executive, administrative, professional, outside sales and...more

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Law @ Work Employer Newsletter - March 2019

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Welcome to the fourth edition of the Law @ Work Employer Newsletter. For those of you who read the Law @ Work blog, you know that the blog offers an in-depth analysis of important legal developments. This Newsletter fills in...more

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“Pay” Attention: Tracking Two New Federal Wage Requirements

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An eventful first week of March saw newsworthy announcements related to the Fair Labor Standards Act's (FLSA) overtime rule and the EEO-1 pay data reporting requirement. Overtime Rule - On March 7, 2019, the US...more

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Complying With the Department of Labor's Proposed Overtime Regulations

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On March 7, the U.S. Department of Labor issued its long-anticipated proposed rule that would expand overtime eligibility under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to include a significant number of additional workers. ...more

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New Overtime Rule Means Minimal Changes for Maine Employers

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On March 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor proposed a long-awaited update to the regulations governing overtime exemptions for certain salaried employees, commonly known as the “white collar” exemptions....more

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Client Alert: Department of Labor Releases New Overtime Rule Proposal

On Thursday, March 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that seeks to update the regulations governing the administrative, executive, and professional exemptions to the...more

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Here We Go Again: DOL Proposes White-Collar Salary Threshold of $35,308

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Seyfarth Synopsis: In the latest chapter in the ongoing saga of the U.S. Department of Labor’s efforts to increase the salary threshold required for most white-collar exemptions, on March 7, 2019, the Department announced a...more

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Department of Labor Establishes New Salary Threshold for Overtime Exemptions

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The Department of Labor (DOL) announced yesterday, in a proposed rule anticipated to take effect in January 2020, that it intends to increase the salary threshold for "white collar" exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards...more

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U.S. Department of Labor Proposed Rule: Employees Earning Less than $35,308 to be Eligible for Overtime

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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to increase the minimum salary for certain “white-collar” administrative, professional, and executive employees to be classified as “exempt” salaried...more

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Take Two: DOL Announces New Proposed FLSA Overtime Regulations

On March 7, the Department of Labor released its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking public comment on proposed changes to the minimum salary requirements in the Fair Labor Standards Act’s “white-collar” overtime exemption...more

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New Overtime Rule Unveiled; $35,308 is the New Salary Threshold

On March 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division announced a long-expected change to the salary threshold for exemptions to mandatory overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). The new...more

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The Next Chapter for Reforming the FLSA White-Collar Overtime Exemptions: The Trump Administration’s Proposal for a New Salary...

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The most commonly used exemptions from overtime requirements under federal wage and hour laws are the so-called White Collar Exemptions, i.e., executive, administrative and professional employees, under Section 13 of the Fair...more

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U.S. Labor Department Proposes Minimum Salary for White Collar Overtime Exemptions

On Thursday, the federal Department of Labor released long-awaited proposed regulations that would replace Obama-era increases to the salary level required for employers to claim the Part 541 Executive, Administrative, and...more

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