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On June 28, 2024, a Texas federal judge issued an injunction temporarily blocking the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) new overtime rule from taking effect for employees working for the State of Texas. As discussed in a...more
Executive Summary: On July 1, 2024, the federal court for the Northern District of Texas issued a decision in Flint Avenue, LLC v. U.S. Department of Labor, denying the plaintiff employer’s request for a nationwide...more
After a federal judge in the Eastern District of Texas blocked the DOL’s new overtime exemption rule as it pertains to Texas state employees, another judge in the Northern District of Texas declined to issue a similar...more
The clock is quickly ticking down to July 1, when the U.S. Department of Labor’s new rule increasing the minimum salary for many employees to be considered exempt from overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act is supposed...more
While some across the United States are working on their tans, many employers are working on managing their labor budgets so they don’t get burned by increases in minimum pay standards for non-exempt, tipped, and certain...more
The U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued its much-anticipated Final Rule, which increases the salary threshold that determines whether employees are exempt from overtime pay under the Federal Law, Fair Labor Standards Act...more
A new Department of Labor (DOL) Overtime Rule (2024 OT Rule) which raises the salary threshold for white-collar exemptions scheduled to go into effect on July 1, 2024 is facing legal challenges. On May 22, 2024, several...more
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced on April 23 a final rule, Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales, and Computer Employees, which will take effect on July...more
The Department of Labor (DOL) has released its final rule increasing the minimum salary employers must pay to most exempt workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)....more
As we have previously addressed, the U. S. Department of Labor (DOL) has issued its final rule raising salary thresholds for overtime exemptions under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) effective January 1, 2025. ...more
On April 23, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a final rule (the “Rule”) increasing the minimum salary threshold for employees exempt from the overtime pay requirements established by the Fair Labor Standards...more
The Department of Labor, on April 23, 2024, issued a new overtime rule regarding the so called “white collar” exemptions to the federal overtime regulations. The changes, which take effect on July 1, 2024, are likely to...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s long-awaited final “Overtime Rule” is here, and it brings drastic changes to requirements employers must follow for paying salaried employees exempt from overtime. Under the Final Rule, which...more
On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released a final rule, "Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales and Computer Employees," which significantly raises the...more
On April 23, 2024, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced its anticipated final rule increasing the minimum salary threshold for exemption to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime requirements, effective July 1, 2024....more
The U.S. Department of Labor released a final rule on April 23, 2024, raising the salary threshold to qualify for certain overtime exemptions under federal law. Most importantly, it significantly raises the minimum salary...more
As has been expected, and as we addressed at the end of 2023 in our previous blog post, on April 23, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) at long last issued its final rule raising the salary thresholds for overtime...more
Under a new proposed rule from the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”), millions more workers would be eligible for overtime pay unless employers pay a much higher salary threshold. As it stands, under the Fair Labor Standards...more
On August 30, 2023, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) unveiled a significant proposed increase to the salary threshold for exemptions to the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) overtime pay requirements. The DOL estimates the...more
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The U.S. Supreme Court has accepted the Petition for Certiorari of Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. to review an issue splitting the federal Courts of Appeals under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The Justices have...more
The Fall 2021 edition of the Jackson Lewis Class Action Trends Report looks at the class action risks that arise as employers navigate return-to-work during this precarious stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Employee symptom...more
I have always been interested in the Motor Carrier Act (MCA) exemption of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 USC 213(b)(1), especially in the doctrine of “practical continuity” which is one of the ways that interstate commerce...more
Miss Manners should stick to writing about ice cream forks. Those of you who read this blog know that I am a longtime fan of the etiquette columnist Judith Martin, aka "Miss Manners," in the Washington Post. I have even...more
In a victory for employers, the Second Circuit held that plaintiffs seeking to invoke the expansive three-year statute of limitations in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) must plead specific facts to support a claim that an...more