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MSHA/OSHA Civil Penalty Amounts Increase for 2025

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On January 10, 2025, the Department of Labor’s annual penalty adjustments were published in the Federal Register. The 2025 increases are approximately 2.6%.  The chart below applies to any penalties assessed after January 15,...more

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Judge Tosses DOL Overtime Increase – What Employers Should Be Considering and Other Wage & Hour Reminders

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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

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

New Year Reminder to Employers: Make Sure Your Exempt Employees Are Being Paid Enough to Maintain Their Status

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

Pullman & Comley - Labor, Employment and...

Important Update to our Wage Alert Regarding the DOL’s Final Rule Increasing the Salary Level for the Executive, Administrative...

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

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Texas Court Strikes Down DOL Overtime Rule: Analysis and Impact on Employers

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

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: Federal Judge Invalidates Department of Labor's Minimum Salary Increases

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

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DOL Appeals Federal Court Decision That Struck Down Salary Threshold Increases for White-Collar Overtime Exemptions

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

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Federal Judge Vacates Department of Labor's Salary Increase to FLSA White Collar Exemption

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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

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FLSA Salary Minimum Will Not Increase on January 1, 2025

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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

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Federal Court Strikes Down Overtime Rule: What Employers Need to Know

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

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Newsflash: DOL Overtime Exemption Rule Invalidated (Again)

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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

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Texas Federal Court Nullifies DOL’s Final Rule on Federal Overtime Exemptions

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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

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Federal Court Blocks Labor Department's Rule on New FLSA Overtime Exemption Salary Level

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

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Federal Court Vacates Increased Salary Standards for Exemptions from Overtime

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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

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Salary Thresholds Reset for Overtime Exemptions

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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

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

Federal Court Blocks Changes to Overtime Rules: Key Takeaways and Guidance for Employers

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

Genova Burns LLC

Not So Fast - Texas Court Derails DOL Rule Expanding Eligibility for Overtime Pay

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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

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History Repeats Itself: Texas Court Enjoins DOL Salary Basis Hikes for a Second Time

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On Friday November 15, a federal judge in Texas issued a nationwide injunction barring the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) from enforcing new regulations raising the salary level required for the so-called white-collar...more

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Federal Judge Strikes Down Increased FLSA Salary Basis Threshold

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A federal judge in Texas recently ruled that the Department of Labor (DOL) did not have the authority to increase the salary basis threshold for the so-called “white-collar” exemptions from overtime.  This ruling means that...more

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The Wait Is Over: DOL Increase to Salary Threshold Thrown Out, Nationwide

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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

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Federal Court Strikes Down DOL’s 2024 Rule on Overtime Exemptions Nationwide

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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

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Not So Fast: Texas Court Blocks Department of Labor Overtime Rule

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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

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Court’s Decision Strikes Down Department of Labor Salary Threshold Increase Rule

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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

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Federal Court Turns back Time on DOL’s Overtime Exemption Salary Threshold Rule: What Employers Need to Know

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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

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Is It Dead? The Department of Labor’s 2024 Rule Increasing the Minimum Salary Threshold for Exempt Employees Is Vacated - For Now

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On Friday, November 15, in State of Texas v. DOL et al., Case No. 4:24-CV-499-SDJ, 4:24-CV-468-SDJ, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the Department of Labor’s (DOL) 2024 Salary...more

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