Beginning January 1, 2024, California employees may have to pay overtime to more computer software employees who earn less than $115,763.35 per year, or $55.58 per hour, or $9,646.96 per month....more
On August 30, 2023 the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced the much anticipated Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) which, if implemented, would increase certain otherwise salary exempt employees’ compensation under...more
On August 30, 2023, the United States Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to update and revise the regulations under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act regarding...more
On August 30, 2023, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced its issuance of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”). In the NPRM, the DOL proposes to increase substantially the salary threshold for most employees to be...more
On August 30, 2023, the US Department of Labor (DOL) announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that it claims will “restore and extend overtime protections to 3.6 million salaried workers” throughout the United States....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On June 13, 2023, the Biden Administration announced the release of its Spring 2023 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (the 2022 Fall Agenda was issued in January 2023). In connection...more
The U.S. Department of Labor ("DOL") is one step closer to publishing final regulations on the FLSA's overtime exemptions for "white collar" workers in executive, administrative, and professional positions. The DOL published...more
The U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) has issued three sets of proposed regulations that significantly impact the Hospitality industry. ...more
On March 28, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released a proposed rule to amend the regulations at 29 CFR Part 778 to clarify and update the “regular rate” requirements under section 7(e) of the Fair Labor Standards...more
Slightly more than two weeks after it announced its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to revise the part 541 overtime exemption regulations, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) published the...more
The proposed changes seek to formally rescind the Obama Administration’s 2016 Final Rule, which more than doubled the minimum salary levels for exemption for overtime requirements. Instead, the Trump Administration proposes...more
The United States Department of Labor finally published its proposed regulation raising the minimum salary to be paid under the “white collar” exceptions to the Fair Labor Standards Act....more
The Department of Labor issued a proposed rule to update and revise Fair Labor Standards Act regulations to implement minimum wage and overtime pay exemptions for executive, administrative, professional, outside sales and...more
Welcome to the fourth edition of the Law @ Work Employer Newsletter. For those of you who read the Law @ Work blog, you know that the blog offers an in-depth analysis of important legal developments. This Newsletter fills in...more
An eventful first week of March saw newsworthy announcements related to the Fair Labor Standards Act's (FLSA) overtime rule and the EEO-1 pay data reporting requirement. Overtime Rule - On March 7, 2019, the US...more
On March 7, the U.S. Department of Labor issued its long-anticipated proposed rule that would expand overtime eligibility under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to include a significant number of additional workers. ...more
On March 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor proposed a long-awaited update to the regulations governing overtime exemptions for certain salaried employees, commonly known as the “white collar” exemptions....more
On Thursday, March 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that seeks to update the regulations governing the administrative, executive, and professional exemptions to the...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In the latest chapter in the ongoing saga of the U.S. Department of Labor’s efforts to increase the salary threshold required for most white-collar exemptions, on March 7, 2019, the Department announced a...more
The Department of Labor (DOL) announced yesterday, in a proposed rule anticipated to take effect in January 2020, that it intends to increase the salary threshold for "white collar" exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards...more
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to increase the minimum salary for certain “white-collar” administrative, professional, and executive employees to be classified as “exempt” salaried...more
On March 7, the Department of Labor released its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking public comment on proposed changes to the minimum salary requirements in the Fair Labor Standards Act’s “white-collar” overtime exemption...more
On March 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division announced a long-expected change to the salary threshold for exemptions to mandatory overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). The new...more
The most commonly used exemptions from overtime requirements under federal wage and hour laws are the so-called White Collar Exemptions, i.e., executive, administrative and professional employees, under Section 13 of the Fair...more
On Thursday, the federal Department of Labor released long-awaited proposed regulations that would replace Obama-era increases to the salary level required for employers to claim the Part 541 Executive, Administrative, and...more