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What's the Tea in L&E? DOL Drama: Court Vacates Overtime Expansion Rule
On November 15, 2024, a federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas struck down the Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) 2024 overtime rule (“Overtime Rule”). This decision came months after the...more
Starting a new year is a good opportunity for employers to review compensation structures to ensure sure they are paying their employees enough to meet the salary thresholds necessary for an employee to maintain their exempt...more
In November, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas blocked the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) final rule discussed below. See Texas v. U.S. Dep’t of Lab., No. 4:24-CV-468-SDJ, 2024 WL 4806268 (E.D. Tex....more
On November 15, 2024, in Texas v. United States Department of Labor, a Texas federal district court struck down a U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) final rule that would have raised the minimum salary threshold for exempt...more
On April 23, 2024, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued a Final Rule that significantly increased the minimum salary required for employees to be classified as exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Specifically,...more
Texas federal judge Sean D. Jordan recently blocked a new U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Rule that would have allowed certain workers making less than $58,656 per year to automatically become eligible for overtime premium pay...more
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is appealing a U.S. district judge’s recent ruling striking down the agency’s final rule “Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales,...more
Earlier this year, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced increases to the salary threshold for the “bona fide executive, administrative, or professional” exemption and the “highly compensated employee” exemption to the...more
On November 15, 2024, a Texas federal judge struck down a rule finalized earlier this year by the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) that increased the minimum salary requirements to be considered an exempt employee under the...more
On November 15, 2024, a federal district court in Texas struck down the U.S. Department of Labor ("DOL") Final Rule that would have made over four million additional workers eligible for overtime pay. The Final Rule...more
Shades of the wage-and-hour uncertainty that accompanied the end of President Obama’s administration in 2016 reappeared last week following a federal court’s decision to invalidate President Biden’s proposed overtime rule. ...more
On November 15, 2024, a District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Texas struck down the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) 2024 final rule, which raised the minimum salary threshold levels for the FLSA’s “white-collar”...more
On November 15, 2024, a federal judge sitting in the Eastern District of Texas found that the Biden administration’s Department of Labor (DOL) exceeded its statutory authority by issuing its April 23, 2024 final rule (the...more
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
On November 15, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ruled that the U.S. Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) 2024 final rule on exempt salary thresholds is unlawful. The ruling has nationwide effect....more
On November 15, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas overturned a 2024 rule that raised the salary threshold for workers to qualify for an exemption under the Fair Labor Standards Act...more
Last Friday, a federal district court in Texas issued a decision blocking both rounds of increases in the minimum salary required to claim the overtime exemption for executive, administrative, and professional employees under...more
On November 15, 2024, in the case of State of Texas v. United States Department of Labor, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated and set aside the rule issued by the U.S. Department of...more
On November 15, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, set aside and vacated the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) 2024 Rule increasing the minimum salary threshold for employees under the...more
On November 15, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide injunction enjoining the Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) Final Rule increasing the salary thresholds for the overtime...more
A federal judge in Texas has struck down the Biden administration’s overtime rule that would have extended overtime protections to an estimated four million additional workers. ...more
A federal district court in Texas on Nov. 15, 2024, issued an order vacating the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) rule that had raised the salary threshold levels for the white-collar overtime exemptions. The rule increased the...more
On November 15, a U.S. District Court in Texas put the brakes on the Department of Labor’s April 2024 Rule designed to make more employees eligible for overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act. State of Texas v. United...more
After months of speculation, the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued an order invalidating the U.S. Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) rule increasing the minimum salary threshold that must be paid to certain...more
Last Friday, a Texas federal court struck down the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) 2024 rule raising the minimum salary levels for certain exemptions to the overtime requirements of the Federal Labor Standards Act (FLSA)....more