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Employers Take Note: Court Vacates Salary Threshold Increases for Exempt Employees

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Last month, a federal district court in Texas invalidated the U.S. Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) April 2024 Final Rule (“Final Rule”), which would have raised salary thresholds for Executive, Administrative, and Professional...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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Back to the Future: Texas Court Puts A Stop To The DOL's Expanded Salary Thresholds

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On November 14, 2024, a federal judge in the Eastern District of Texas issued an order vacating the recent U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) Final Rule, which raised the minimum salaries employers had to pay certain employees...more

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A Game of Texas Hold’em:  How Texas Stopped Wage Increases for Salaried Exempt Employees Nationwide

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On November 15, 2024, a federal court in Texas vacated a U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) rule (the “2024 Rule”) that increased the minimum salary threshold for employees classified as exempt from overtime and minimum wage...more

Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

Texas Federal Court Sets Aside DOL’s New Salary Threshold for Exempt Workers

On Friday, November 15, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (“District Court”) issued a decision invalidating the April 2024 Department of Labor (“DOL”) rule which increased the minimum...more

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It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again: Federal Court Invalidates Department of Labor’s Overtime Rule

In 2016 and 2023, the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced increases to the minimum salary threshold for the executive, administrative, and professional exemptions to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

Turning Back Overtime – Texas Judge Strikes Down Salary Threshold Increase

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A federal judge in Texas struck down the U.S. Department of Labor's ("DOL") rule that drastically increased the minimum salary thresholds for bona fide executive, administrative, and professional employees (the "EAP...more

McAfee & Taft

January 1 salary threshold increase for overtime exemptions struck down nationwide

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On Friday November 15, 2024, a Texas federal court struck down the U.S. Department of Labor’s 2024 Final Rule increasing the salary threshold for the Administration, Executive, and Professional (EAP or “white collar”)...more

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DOL Salary Rule Vacated by Texas Court

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The US Department of Labor’s Final Rule increasing the minimum salary levels required to qualify for the overtime exemptions is null and void. On November 15, 2024, a Texas federal district court set aside and vacated...more

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Federal Court in Texas Strikes Down the DOL’s New Overtime Rule

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On November 15, 2024, a federal judge in the Eastern District of Texas put an end to the Department of Labor’s (DOL) recent increases to the minimum salary thresholds for certain exempt employees under the Fair Labor...more

Holland & Hart - Employers' Lawyers

Federal Court Strikes Down DOL’s 2024 Overtime Rule

On November 15, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas invalidated the Department of Labor’s (DOL) 2024 Final Rule, which increased salary thresholds for overtime exemptions under the Fair Labor...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Texas Federal Court Overturns DOL's 2024 Overtime Rule Nationwide

Coincidentally, one day after issuing our insight, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a decision on the consolidated motions for summary judgment in State of Texas v. DOL and Plan Chamber of...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

Bricker Graydon LLP

DOL Overtime Rules and Institutions of Higher Education - Where Are We, What’s Next, and What Can We Do?

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After much nail biting and wondering when to jump the train track, on July 1, 2024, the new overtime thresholds for non-exempt employees went into effect for everyone – outside of Texas. Now the rest of us are subject to the...more

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Client Alert: Nonprofit Employers - Take Note of New FLSA Overtime Rules Effective July 1st

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Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a final rule modifying the standard for determining whether employees qualify for several key exemptions to the overtime pay requirements set by the Fair Labor...more

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Somethings Aren’t Bigger in Texas

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A federal judge in Texas recently held the Department of Labor’s (DOL) rule increasing the annual salary threshold for the exemption provided for executive, professional and administrative employees (the “white-collar...more

Gould + Ratner LLP

Federal Judge Blocks U.S. Department of Labor’s New Overtime Rule in Texas

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A federal judge in Texas granted a preliminary injunction on June 28, 2024, barring the July 1, 2024, effect of a new U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) overtime regulation that would have increased the salary threshold for...more

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DOL Overtime Rule Blocked for Employees of State of Texas

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

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New Update on Litigation Challenging the DOL's 2024 Salary Rule

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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

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Court blocks new FLSA salary thresholds... but only for State of Texas employees

There was good news and bad news on Friday from one of the lawsuits challenging the U.S. Department of Labor’s regulation increasing the salary threshold for the so-called white-collar exemptions to the overtime requirements...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Seyfarth Policy Matters Newsletter - April 2020

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Department of Labor Issues Regulations on the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). On April 1, the Department of Labor issued final “temporary” regulations interpreting the requirements of the FFCRA. As indicated...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Employment Flash - September 2017

This edition examines recent labor and employment developments at the U.S. federal, state and local levels, including a Texas district court ruling invalidating the Department of Labor's overtime rule; a New York appellate...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Proposed 2016 “White Collar” Regulations Struck Down; DOL Starts Work on New Regulations

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The winding legal path of the 2016 “white collar” regulations has come to an end. On August 31, 2017, the Honorable Amos L. Mazzant of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas struck down the U.S. Department...more

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Overtime Exemption Increases: Not Now, But (Probably) Soon

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As our readers are aware, we have devoted a good amount of space to discussing the status of the Department of Labor’s (DOL) final rule on exemptions from overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). After a...more

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Judge Strikes Down DOL’s Proposed Overtime Rule!

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Finally, it appears we have closure on this saga that started over a year ago! On August 31st, the same Texas federal district court judge who granted a preliminary injunction last November delaying the effective date of the...more

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