In our most recent bulletin on the new Final Rule increasing salary levels for exempt white-collar employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act, we noted that there was an additional challenge to the new regulations and that...more
The new salary level regulations issued by the U.S. Department of Labor will take effect July 1. On that date, the salary threshold for white-collar exemptions from the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act...more
The U.S. Department of Labor has issued final regulations that increase the minimum salary level needed for the white-collar exemption and the annual compensation threshold needed to be considered a Highly Compensated...more
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in Helix Energy Solutions, Group, Inc. v. Hewitt, deciding that a supervisor who was paid a daily rate and earned more than $200,000 a year was not exempt...more
Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor issued its Final Rule regarding the salary thresholds that apply to certain exempt white-collar employees. The new salary thresholds will take effect on January 1.
The DOL received...more
Remember the 2016 Overtime Rule? They sued over that?
Last summer, I wrote about Alvarez v. Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., a class and collective action alleging that Chipotle violated the Overtime Rule issued by the Obama...more
Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Amos Mazzant followed up on his preliminary injunction ruling, issued last November, by rendering final judgment in favor of the business groups and state governments who had challenged...more
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On November 23, 2016, we issued a Client Bulletin titled “Employers Can Breathe A Sigh of Relief Come December 1: Court strikes down overtime rule.” But a new lawsuit in federal court in Jersey puts a gulp in that sigh of...more
On May 18, 2016, the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor released its long-awaited Final Rule regarding changes to the regulations governing who is an executive, administrative, professional, or...more
The final version of the U.S. Department of Labor rule on white-collar overtime exemptions was sent this week to the Office of Management and Budget, the last stage before issuance of the Rule. ...more
The new overtime white-collar exemption rule will be issued approximately July 2016, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s fall 2015 regulatory agenda, which the Office of Management and Budget published just before...more
Domestic service workers providing either companionship service or live-in care for elderly, ill or disabled persons and who are employed by a staffing agency or other third-party employer are entitled to minimum wage and...more