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SuperVision - Labor & Employment Law Insights, Issue 4, December 2024

Happy Holidays and welcome to our year-end issue of SuperVision. In this edition, we are pleased to bring you the “Top Five” biggest labor and employment issues that will impact employers for the coming year along with...more

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History Repeats Itself: Texas Court Enjoins DOL Salary Basis Hikes for a Second Time

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On Friday November 15, a federal judge in Texas issued a nationwide injunction barring the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) from enforcing new regulations raising the salary level required for the so-called white-collar...more

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Federal Judge Strikes Down Increased FLSA Salary Basis Threshold

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A federal judge in Texas recently ruled that the Department of Labor (DOL) did not have the authority to increase the salary basis threshold for the so-called “white-collar” exemptions from overtime.  This ruling means that...more

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An Independent School’s Guide to the New DOL Overtime Rule

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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

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

SuperVision - Labor & Employment Insights, Issue 2, July 2024

Welcome to the Summer issue of SuperVision, our labor and employment e-newsletter. We continue to see substantial activity and legal developments impacting employers. In this edition, we cover Artificial Intelligence,...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Are You in Compliance with the New FLSA Salary Threshold?

We previously posted here regarding a July 1, 2024, increase in the salary threshold for overtime exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Despite multiple legal challenges to the Department of Labor’s 2024 Rule,...more

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Challenges to DOL Overtime Rule (Effective for *Almost All Covered Employers July 1, 2024)

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Most employers in the United States will start the month of July with a higher salary requirement to exempt certain employees from minimum wage and overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). However, a June 28th...more

Butler Snow LLP

Hurry Up and Wait – DOL Final Rule increasing salary threshold on July 1, 2024 faces legal challenges

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On April 23, 2024, the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced a final rule which will raise the salary threshold required to classify employees as exempt from overtime pay requirements under federal law.[1]...more

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National Business Associations File Suit to Block New DOL Overtime Rule

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On May 22, 2024, a group of national business associations filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) from implementing its new Final Rule on overtime. As we noted in our prior alert, the new rule...more

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Business Groups File Lawsuit to Block DOL’s Raised Salary Thresholds for White Collar Overtime Exemptions

On May 22, 2024, more than a dozen business groups and a company filed a lawsuit seeking to block the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) new final rule that significantly raises the minimum salary thresholds for the Fair Labor...more

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EEOC Title VII Guidance, Captive Audience Meetings, Cemex, and Exempt Salary Threshold Challenges: May 2024 Labor and Employment...

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EEOC Title VII Guidance Challenged - On May 21, the Texas attorney general sought a permanent injunction to block the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (“EEOC”) enforcement guidance over gender identity and...more

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Department of Labor to Expand Access to Overtime Pay Substantially in Two Phases Beginning July 1, 2024

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On April 23, 2024, the Department of Labor (DOL) released a final rule raising the minimum salary thresholds for certain overtime exemptions under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which effectively expands the...more

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Key Takeaways for Maine Employers from DOL Final Rule Increasing Salary Thresholds for Exempt Employees

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The U.S. Department of Labor recently issued a final rule that would increase the required salary thresholds for employees to be exempt from overtime requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The increases to...more

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DOL Raises Minimum Salary Thresholds for Overtime Exemptions

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Employers may need to raise exempt employee salaries or reclassify them as non-exempt if the new salary thresholds go into effect. On April 23, 2024, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued a new rule (the DOL Rule) that...more

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Raising the FLSA Exemption Bar: More Workers Will Be Eligible For Overtime

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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published its Final Rule on April 23, 2024, updating the minimum salary threshold for exemption from overtime payment obligations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The Rule created...more

Brooks Pierce

Extra, Extra…Pay for Exempt Employees: DOL Published Final Rule on Overtime Exemptions

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On April 23, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final rule altering the requirements for “white collar” exemptions under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This is the final step in a process that...more

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USDOL proposes to expand minimum wage, OT protections by increasing minimum salaries for White Collar exemptions

After repeated promises and repeated delays, the U.S. Department of Labor has released proposed regulations to revise the compensation requirements of the White Collar and Highly Compensated Employee exemptions of the Fair...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Time Is Running Out to Make Important Decisions to Comply with New FLSA “White Collar” Salary Thresholds

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As we wrote here in September 27, the new “white collar” salary thresholds under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”)  are set to go into effect on January 1, 2020. That deadline is sneaking up fast....more

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National Employment Perspective: Focus On And Wage- Update to Overtime Exemption Regulation for Executive, Administrative and...

For the first time in a number of years, overtime regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) have been updated. This modest development increases the earning threshold necessary to exempt executive, administrative...more

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Increase in Minimum Salary Threshold for FLSA EAP Exemptions

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Effective January 1, 2020, the minimum salary threshold for the executive, administrative, and professional exemptions (EAP exemptions) under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) will increase from $455 a week ($23,660...more

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Impact of New Federal Overtime Rule Will Vary Across New England States

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On September 24, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor announced a long-awaited final rule regarding adjustments to the salary requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act for certain salaried employees, commonly known as the...more

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