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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

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

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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

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DOL Overtime Rules

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In September, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a long-awaited final rule updating the compensation requirements for the FLSA’s executive, administrative, and professional exemptions. The 2019 Final Rule is effective...more

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DOL Final Rule Raises Minimum Salary Threshold for Employees Exempt from Overtime Pay Under the FLSA

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On September 24, 2019, the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a final rule that, when implemented, will raise the minimum salary threshold that white-collar employees must be paid to qualify as employees exempt...more

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1.3 Million Additional Employees May Become Eligible for Overtime in 2020

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The United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) recently published its final rule governing overtime obligations under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). An employee covered by the FLSA must receive overtime pay for...more

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DOL Finalizes New Overtime Rule For White-Collar Exemptions: 1.3 Million Additional Workers Will Be Eligible For Overtime Pay...

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On September 24, 2019, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) issued its final rule revising the overtime exemptions that cover employees designated as executive, administrative and professional – the so-called...more

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Client Alert: U.S. Department of Labor Raises the Minimum Salary Level for Overtime Exemptions

On September 24, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) finally unveiled its long-awaited final rule under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) which officially will increase the minimum salary level for the “white...more

Stoel Rives - World of Employment

Department of Labor Announces Expanded Overtime Protection for over 1 Million Workers Beginning January 1, 2020

The U.S. Department of Labor announced today that an estimated 1.3 million workers will soon be eligible to receive overtime or be in line for a raise. Effective January 1, 2020, the minimum salary threshold for the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

United States Department of Labor Issues Final Rule Concerning Minimum Salary Threshold to Qualify for Exemption from Overtime...

On March 7, 2019, the United States Department of Labor (“USDOL”) issued its long-awaited proposed rule that would increase the minimum salary threshold to qualify for exemption from the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor...more

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USDOL Releases Proposed Exemption Changes (Overtime Rule 2.0) - Updated

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The USDOL's long-awaited proposed white-collar exemption changes a/k/a Overtime Rule 2.0 has been made available. Once it is published in the Federal Register, the public will have 60 days to submit comments regarding, among...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

New Salary Threshold for Employees Exempt from Overtime

Exempt employees would have to be paid a minimum annual salary of $35,308 in order to be exempt from the overtime and record keeping requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act, under the Department of Labor’s long-awaited...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

DOL Releases New Proposed Overtime Threshold: Time to Review FLSA Classifications

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The Department of Labor (DOL) on March 7, 2019, released a long-awaited proposal to increase the minimum annual salary threshold to $35,308 for employees to be exempt as executives, administrative, or professional employees. ...more

Tonkon Torp LLP

Federal District Court Invalidates The DOL's Overtime Rules

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A federal judge in Texas issued an order on August 31, 2017, invalidating the Final Rule to the so-called "White Collar Exemptions" promulgated by the United States Department of Labor (DOL). Under the Final Rule, the...more

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Obama Overtime Rule Is Declared Invalid – For Good? (Let’s Hope.)

Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Amos Mazzant followed up on his preliminary injunction ruling, issued last November, by rendering final judgment in favor of the business groups and state governments who had challenged...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

District Court Holds Overtime Rule Invalid; Is End Of Obama-Era Rule Here?

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The Department of Labor’s May 2016 Final Rule, which would have more than doubled the minimum salary necessary to satisfy the “executive, administrative or professional” (the “EAP” or “white collar”) overtime exemptions under...more

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Injunction of the DOL’s Overtime Rule and Its Appeal

Is the Department of Labor (DOL) overtime rule now dead? Will the overtime rule be modified to a more modest version? Much uncertainty remains regarding the recently announced overtime rule in both the legal and the political...more

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Although Presidential Election Creates Questions About FLSA Regulations, Employers Who Ignore December 1 Effective Date Do So At...

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Effective December 1, 2016, pursuant to new Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regulations adopted by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), the salary threshold for many salaried exempt employees will increase substantially, from...more

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New York Employers Take Note: Federal Court Injunction Blocking the Federal Overtime Regulations Means Little in New York

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Proposed New York regulations will nearly approach the now-enjoined federal salary thresholds — and then leapfrog those amounts in subsequent years. Originally published in Daily Labor Report - November 30, 2016....more

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Employers: Texas District Court Grants Nationwide Injunction Against DOL's Final Rule

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Employment Defense by Tal Burnovski Yeyni 818-907-3224 Tweet   In May we reported the Federal Department of Labor issued its Final Rule regarding the minimum salary level required for the exemption of executive,...more

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Federal Judge Blocks Department of Labor’s Overtime Rule

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On Tuesday, November 22, a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against enforcement of the Department of Labor’s final rule that would have...more

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Nationwide Injunction Blocks the Department of Labor's Overtime Rule

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Last week, a federal judge in Texas issued a nationwide injunction blocking the Department of Labor’s new overtime regulations intended to go into effect on December 1, 2016. The regulations would have entitled millions of...more

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Federal Court Enjoins DOL Overtime Rule

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Many employers have spent this holiday week rolling out communication plans and making final preparations for salary or exemption changes in response to the U.S. Department of Labor's overtime rule, set to go into effect on...more

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Texas Federal Court Blocks New Salary Restrictions for Exempt Employees

On November 22, 2016, a federal court in the Eastern District of Texas issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Department of Labor from enforcing new regulations that would have drastically reduced the number of white...more

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