The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently issued an Administrator Interpretation stating that employees who perform the usual duties of mortgage loan officers are not exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act's (FLSA) minimum wage and overtime requirements. The DOL determined that these employees do not meet the requirements of the administrative employee exemption because their primary duty is selling mortgage loan products, which does not relate to the internal management or general business operations of the employer. According to the DOL, mortgage loan officers' duties involve the day-to-day carrying out of a financial service company's marketplace offerings and, "thus, fall squarely on the production [rather than administrative] side of the business."