The Department of Labor issued a Final Rule on April 24, 2024, addressing the salary requirements for the overtime (“white collar”) exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The Final Rule increases the standard salary...more
5/1/2024
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On Tuesday, April 23, the United States Department of Labor issued its anticipated Final Rule on the Fair Labor Standards Act salary requirements for overtime exemption.
The Final Rule, which will likely face legal...more
The DOL issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposing, among other things, to increase the salary threshold for white-collar overtime exemptions. You may recall that there was a lot of discussion about this back in 2016...more
9/7/2023
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An update on Department of Labor’s (DOL)’s controversial new overtime regulations regarding “white-collar” exemptions.
With the U.S. DOL’s regulations increasing the minimum salary for white collar exemptions scheduled...more
Receiving over 270,000 comments must have impressed the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to the point that it scaled back the provisions originally stated or hinted at in the proposed rules, with final rules issued May 18 that...more
The Department of Labor issued its long-awaited proposed FLSA salary regulations yesterday and, as many feared, they will have a massive impact on American businesses, more than doubling the salary companies must pay their...more