Remember the surprise and dismay when the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) announced in May 2016 it had adopted a rule (later invalidated by a federal court) setting the salary threshold for white-collar exempt employees at...more
The U.S. Department of Labor has issued a formal notice of proposed rulemaking increasing the salary threshold for exempt employees under the FLSA starting January 1, 2020....more
A Texas federal court has issued a nationwide preliminary injunction preventing the key features of the controversial FLSA white-collar exemption rule from taking effect on Dec. 1. The USDOL can appeal to the conservative 5th...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s new FLSA white-collar exemption regulations are scheduled to take effect Dec. 1, 2016, despite longshot efforts to pass legislation in Congress to repeal or delay the regulations and despite two...more
After completing its review of nearly 300,000 comments, the U.S. Department of Labor has submitted its final overtime rule to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which is the last step in the mandated review process....more