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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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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