On August 31, 2017, Judge Amos Mazzant of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas entered a final judgment in State of Nevada et al. vs. U.S. Department of Labor et al., awarding summary judgment against the...more
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On November 22, 2016, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas granted a momentous preliminary injunction stopping the United States Department of Labor ("DOL") from implementing and enforcing its...more
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has granted a preliminary injunction stopping the U.S. Department of Labor ("DOL") from implementing new overtime regulations. The court concluded that the...more
After almost a year of speculation and concern, the U.S. Department of Labor ("DOL") today, May 18, 2016, issued its long-awaited Final Rule on overtime exemptions, making a major change to the minimum salary that an employee...more