On November 15, 2024, in the case of State of Texas v. United States Department of Labor, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated and set aside the rule issued by the U.S. Department of...more
11/22/2024
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On April 22, 2024, the Department of Labor (DOL) released the final version of a new rule to raise the minimum salary threshold for most employees covered by the so-called white-collar exemptions under the Fair Labor Standard...more
4/30/2024
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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
9/1/2023
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..Based on the Department of Labor’s Final Rule, the minimum annual salary level for most employees covered by the “white collar exemptions” from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime pay requirement will increase from...more
On March 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor released its highly anticipated proposed rule to update the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime exemptions for executive, administrative, professional, and computer employees,...more
..A federal court in Texas has issued a nationwide injunction preventing the implementation of the Department of Labor’s “Final Rule” increasing the minimum salary for most of the so-called “white collar” exemptions from the...more
Increase in Minimum Salary for Most Exemptions -
On May 18, 2016, the Department of Labor (DOL) published its final rule concerning the minimum salary level necessary in most cases for an employer to qualify as exempt...more
5/20/2016
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