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Last week, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated and set aside the United States Department of Labor’s (DOL) final rule raising the minimum salary threshold for the Fair Labor Standards...more
A Texas federal judge has blocked a key U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) rule that would have expanded overtime eligibility to millions of workers. The court’s decision as of Friday November 15, 2024 halts the implementation of...more
On Friday, November 15, 2024, a federal judge blocked the U.S. Department of Labor’s Final Rule (29 CFR Part 541), which would have increased the salary threshold for the Fair Labor Standard Act’s (“FLSA”) “white-collar”...more
With the upcoming change in administration, we expected that the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) 2024 Overtime Rule ultimately would be cast aside, but the timing of the January 1, 2025 salary level increase before...more
As 2024 draws to a close, plan sponsors should be aware of those provisions of the SECURE Act 2.0 that become effective in 2025. Recall that the SECURE 2.0 Act (SECURE 2.0) was enacted on December 29, 2022, and while some...more
This past Friday, employers scored a victory when a Texas federal judge struck down the Department of Labor’s (DOL) rule which increased the salary levels for the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) executive, administrative,...more
By now, everyone has heard about the Texas court putting the kibosh on the new salary exempt thresholds. In other exemption classification news, the United States Supreme Court is set to issue an opinion in early 2025...more
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
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
Just last week, a court order blocked the implementation of a Department of Labor rule that would increase the salary thresholds for exempt employees. Many independent schools may be wondering what this means for them,...more
In April of this year, the United States Department of Labor the (“DOL”) announced a final rule (the “2024 Rule”) that had a dramatic effect on whether employers can legally exempt employees from overtime pay under the Fair...more
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
On Nov. 15, 2024, a federal judge in Texas vacated the U.S. Department of Labor’s rule that would have increased the salary threshold for white-collar exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Texas v....more
On November 15, 2024, in State of Texas, et al. v. United States Department of Labor, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the U.S. Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) April 23, 2024 final rule that...more
Last April, the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released a rule increasing the salary threshold for overtime-exempt employees. On November 15, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern...more
On November 15, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas blocked the Department of Labor’s 2024 Rule that would have expanded entitlement to overtime wages for millions of American workers....more
A federal judge in Texas has struck down the recently implemented United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) federal overtime salary threshold rule. This 2024 rule raised the minimum salary level for certain employees to be...more
As clients will recall from earlier alerts, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a rule in April 2024 that required employers to increase the salary floor for persons meeting the “white-collar” exemptions referred to as the...more
On Nov. 15, 2024, a federal judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas struck down a Biden-era rule that would have expanded overtime payments for millions of employees through a modification...more
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On Friday, November 15, a Texas federal court turned back time on the minimum salary threshold rule for certain overtime exemptions under the Fair Labor Standard Act’s (“FLSA”)—halting the planned January 1, 2025, increase,...more
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
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
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
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