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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

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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

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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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UPDATE: State of Texas and Business Groups Succeed in Vacating DOL’s Final Rule Increasing Compensation Thresholds for Exempt...

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As we reported earlier this year, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a final rule on April 23, 2024 (the “Final Rule”), raising the salary threshold for the so-called “White-Collar” Exemptions and the Highly Compensated...more

Bracewell LLP

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 District Court Issues Preliminary Injunction Halting OFCCP Administrative Proceeding

On October 30, 2024, the District Court for the Southern District of Texas preliminarily enjoined the Department of Labor (“DOL”), the Secretary of Labor, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”), and the...more

The Wagner Law Group

Retirement Security Rule Stayed

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July 25 was not a good week for the Department of Labor (“DOL”) in Texas. On July 25, the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, in a civil action filed by the Federation of Americans for Consumer Choice, placed a...more

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District Court in Texas Blocks DOL Wage Rules Under Davis-Bacon Act

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The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas granted a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking certain wage rules adopted by the Department of Labor (DOL) that had expanded coverage of the Davis-Bacon Act...more

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New USDOL Prevailing Wage/Davis-Bacon Rules Enjoined By Texas Judge

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I have closely followed the new initiative by the USDOL on its changing in a dramatic way the manner in which prevailing wage rates are determined. That effort, however, has, for the moment, come to an end as a federal judge...more

Whiteford

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

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’s New Overtime Rule Litigation Update: Texas Federal Judge Denies Postponement of Rule for a Private Employer

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Late Monday afternoon, a federal judge in Texas denied a marketing firm’s motion for a preliminary injunction to halt the DOL’s new overtime rule. This denial affirms that, for now, employers, other than the State of Texas,...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

U.S. District Court Enjoins Enforcement of Key Portions of DOL’s Davis-Bacon Act Rule

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas granted a preliminary injunction against sections of the U.S. Department of Labor’s recently issued Davis-Bacon Act regulation amendments. The Court enjoined the...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

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace

District Court Grants Injunction of 2024 Overtime Rule Limited to State of Texas as Employer

On Friday, June 24, 2024, the business day before the Biden Department of Labor’s new overtime rule was scheduled to take effect, a federal district judge granted the State of Texas’s motion for a preliminary injunction to...more

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