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Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

New Year Reminder to Employers: Make Sure Your Exempt Employees Are Being Paid Enough to Maintain Their Status

Starting a new year is a good opportunity for employers to review compensation structures to ensure sure they are paying their employees enough to meet the salary thresholds necessary for an employee to maintain their exempt...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

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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DOL Appeals Federal Court Decision That Struck Down Salary Threshold Increases for White-Collar Overtime Exemptions

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is appealing a U.S. district judge’s recent ruling striking down the agency’s final rule “Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales,...more

Laner Muchin, Ltd.

FLSA Salary Minimum Will Not Increase on January 1, 2025

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On November 15, 2024, a Texas federal judge struck down a rule finalized earlier this year by the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) that increased the minimum salary requirements to be considered an exempt employee under the...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Newsflash: DOL Overtime Exemption Rule Invalidated (Again)

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Shades of the wage-and-hour uncertainty that accompanied the end of President Obama’s administration in 2016 reappeared last week following a federal court’s decision to invalidate President Biden’s proposed overtime rule. ...more

Smith Anderson

DOL Increased Salary Threshold Rule Struck Down Nationwide

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On November 15, 2024, a District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Texas struck down the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) 2024 final rule, which raised the minimum salary threshold levels for the FLSA’s “white-collar”...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Federal Court Vacates DOL's 2024 Overtime Rule

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On November 15, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a ruling in State of Texas et al. v. United States Department of Labor et al., vacating a DOL 2024 final rule (2024 Rule) that sought to...more

Lathrop GPM

Texas Federal Court Vacates U.S. Department of Labor’s Exempt Salary Threshold Rule with Nationwide Effect

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On November 15, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ruled that the U.S. Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) 2024 final rule on exempt salary thresholds is unlawful. The ruling has nationwide effect....more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

A Federal District Court Struck Down the Department of Labor’s Minimum Salary Increase for Exempt Employees: Now What?

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On November 15, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas overturned a 2024 rule that raised the salary threshold for workers to qualify for an exemption under the Fair Labor Standards Act...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Federal Court Blocks Labor Department's Rule on New FLSA Overtime Exemption Salary Level

Last Friday, a federal district court in Texas issued a decision blocking both rounds of increases in the minimum salary required to claim the overtime exemption for executive, administrative, and professional employees under...more

Goodwin

Federal Court Vacates Increased Salary Standards for Exemptions from Overtime

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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

Williams Mullen

Salary Thresholds Reset for Overtime Exemptions

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On November 15, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, set aside and vacated the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) 2024 Rule increasing the minimum salary threshold for employees under the...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Federal Court Vacates Department of Labor Overtime Exemption Rule

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A federal district court in Texas on Nov. 15, 2024, issued an order vacating the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) rule that had raised the salary threshold levels for the white-collar overtime exemptions. The rule increased the...more

Genova Burns LLC

Not So Fast - Texas Court Derails DOL Rule Expanding Eligibility for Overtime Pay

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On November 15, a U.S. District Court in Texas put the brakes on the Department of Labor’s April 2024 Rule designed to make more employees eligible for overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act. State of Texas v. United...more

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

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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The Wait Is Over: DOL Increase to Salary Threshold Thrown Out, Nationwide

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After months of speculation, the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued an order invalidating the U.S. Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) rule increasing the minimum salary threshold that must be paid to certain...more

Venable LLP

Feels Like Déjà Vu: Increases to the Salary Threshold for Overtime Exemptions Are Blocked (Again)

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Just last week, a court order blocked the implementation of a Department of Labor rule that would increase the salary thresholds for exempt employees. Many independent schools may be wondering what this means for them,...more

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Not So Fast: Texas Court Blocks Department of Labor Overtime Rule

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On November 15, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas blocked the Department of Labor’s 2024 Rule that would have expanded entitlement to overtime wages for millions of American workers....more

Bricker Graydon LLP

Court’s Decision Strikes Down Department of Labor Salary Threshold Increase Rule

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As clients will recall from earlier alerts, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a rule in April 2024 that required employers to increase the salary floor for persons meeting the “white-collar” exemptions referred to as the...more

BakerHostetler

Is It Dead? The Department of Labor’s 2024 Rule Increasing the Minimum Salary Threshold for Exempt Employees Is Vacated - For Now

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On Friday, November 15, in State of Texas v. DOL et al., Case No. 4:24-CV-499-SDJ, 4:24-CV-468-SDJ, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the Department of Labor’s (DOL) 2024 Salary...more

Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld LLC

The DOL’s Overtime Rule is Struck Down - No More Salary Threshold Increases for the New Year

On November 15, 2024, a Texas federal court issued a final decision (the “Decision”), vacating and setting aside the Department of Labor’s Overtime Rule, released in April 2024, which raised the minimum salary thresholds for...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

Texas Court Blocks FLSA Salary Threshold Increase Nationwide

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On November 15, 2024, a federal district court vacated the Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) salary-threshold increase for the executive, professional and administrative (EAP) exemption. We’ve been following this closely, as have...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Texas Court Strikes Down DOL Rule Increasing Salary Threshold for Exempt Employees

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On November 15, 2024, a federal judge vacated and set aside the final rule issued by the Department of Labor (“DOL” or the “Department”), which increased the salary threshold required to classify certain positions as exempt...more

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Texas Federal Judge Appears Poised to Strike Down DOL Overtime Rule

A federal judge in Texas seemed skeptical that the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) did not overreach with its latest rule that raised the minimum salary thresholds to the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) white-collar overtime...more

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