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Employers have been following legal challenges to the U.S. Department of Labor’s second round of increases to the minimum salary that must be paid to meet the requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act’s white collar...more
During 2024 we have reported on several high-profile cases that have challenged wage-related regulations issued by the U.S. Department of Labor – including tips, independent contractors, and the white-collar exemptions to the...more
Real World Impact: On September 11, 2024, in Mayfield v. Department of Labor, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the Department of Labor’s (DOL) authority to set minimum salary thresholds for overtime...more
On September 11, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued its opinion in Mayfield v. Department of Labor, upholding the authority of the Department of Labor (“DOL”) to establish a minimum salary...more
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has statutory authority to impose a salary level requirement to qualify for the executive, administrative, and professional (EAP) exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the...more
In a follow-up to our previous client alerts on the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issuing a new overtime exemption rule and legal challenges to the new rule, a three-judge panel on the Fifth Circuit found that the DOL was...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On September 11, 2024, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held in Mayfield v. U.S. Department of Labor that the Secretary’s salary test for evaluating overtime exemptions are valid...more
We previously wrote about the U.S. Department of Labor’s 2024 overtime rule that raises the salary basis for overtime exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). We explained that this rule was bound to face legal...more
In a major win for the Department of Labor, a federal appeals court just ruled that the agency has the power to set a salary basis floor in order for workers to be considered exempt from overtime pay. Yesterday’s ruling from...more
On September 11, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) authority to use a salary basis to define its white-collar overtime exemptions....more
The Department of Labor’s decision to significantly increase the minimum salary required to claim the so-called white-collar exemptions from federal overtime requirements has prompted legal challenges from employers. ...more
With the U.S. Department of Labor’s recent increases to the minimum salary or fee amount for certain exempt employees, many employers are reviewing the exemption status of their employees. In doing so, employers should be...more
As we previously reported, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a Final Rule adjusting the minimum annual salary that an employee must be paid to qualify for the executive, administrative, and professional (“EAP”)...more
A Fifth Circuit panel heard oral argument on Wednesday, August 7, on whether Department of Labor (DOL) regulations imposing a salary requirement to satisfy the executive, administrative and professional exemptions is valid....more
In a 2024 Final Rule, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced that it would be increasing in two phases the salary threshold for employees to be exempt from overtime....more
Effective July 1, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor’s new overtime rule took effect throughout the country, except in the state of Texas (where due to ongoing litigation, Texas employees that are employed by the state of...more
After much nail biting and wondering when to jump the train track, on July 1, 2024, the new overtime thresholds for non-exempt employees went into effect for everyone – outside of Texas. Now the rest of us are subject to the...more
Effective July 1, 2024, new regulations from the United States Department of Labor (the “DOL”) (the “2024 Rule”) increase the minimum salary level employees must be paid in order to be exempt from the Fair Labor Standards...more
The first round of increases to minimum salaries required to claim the Fair Labor Standards Act’s white-collar overtime exemptions took effect July 1. Unless blocked by federal courts, the second, larger increase in the...more
UPDATE: On 3 July 2024, the Northern District of Texas preliminarily enjoined the US Federal Trade Commission from implementing and enforcing its Final Rule banning non-competes against the US Chamber of Commerce, the...more
In our most recent bulletin on the new Final Rule increasing salary levels for exempt white-collar employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act, we noted that there was an additional challenge to the new regulations and that...more
A federal court in the Eastern District of Texas halted enforcement of the salary threshold increases following challenges to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Final Rule – Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive,...more
Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a final rule modifying the standard for determining whether employees qualify for several key exemptions to the overtime pay requirements set by the Fair Labor...more
As our prior legal alert detailed, the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor on April 23, 2024 announced its Final Rule increasing salary thresholds for the Executive, Administrative, and Professional (“EAP”)...more
As we previously reported, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a new final rule increasing the minimum salary amounts for the executive, administrative, and professional (EAP) and highly compensated employee exemptions....more