News & Analysis as of

Exempt-Employees Department of Labor (DOL)

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

Woods Rogers

Who Gets Paid on a Snow Day?

Woods Rogers on

It’s that time of year! You can’t turn on the news and not see a winter weather advisory for somewhere in the country. Here is a question we get every year: Do we have to pay employees if it snows, and the office is closed?...more

Fisher Phillips

Wage and Hour Officials Focus on Healthcare Employers in Southeastern U.S. – 5 Tips to Avoid Trouble

Fisher Phillips on

Federal wage and hour officials have trained their attention on healthcare employers in the Southeastern United States – and we expect this scrutiny to continue into the new year. The past year alone saw the Department of...more

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace

Potential Government Shutdown – What Every Federal Contractor Needs to Know - December 2024

We appear to be on the precipice of another federal government shutdown.  Absent a political compromise, the federal government’s funding will run out on December 21, 2024.  During previous government shutdowns, government...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

Lippes Mathias LLP

Employers Take Note: Court Vacates Salary Threshold Increases for Exempt Employees

Lippes Mathias LLP on

Last month, a federal district court in Texas invalidated the U.S. Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) April 2024 Final Rule (“Final Rule”), which would have raised salary thresholds for Executive, Administrative, and Professional...more

Rumberger | Kirk

Ding Dong the New DOL Rule Raising Minimum Salary Levels is Dead

Rumberger | Kirk on

Good news for employers – the Department of Labor’s (DOL) new rule, which significantly increased the minimum salary level threshold for exempt employees, was overturned by a federal court in Texas, effectively blocking the...more

Clark Hill PLC

[Webinar] FLSA Minimum Salary Threshold for Exempt Employees - December 17th, 10:00 am PT

Clark Hill PLC on

Join a panel of Clark Hill and HRAA labor and employment professionals as they explore the recent reset of the FLSA minimum exempt salary threshold and its implications for employers. This session will provide insights into...more

Littler

Littler’s Semi-Annual Rates Update for Minimum Wage, Tips, and Exempt Pay Increases on January 1, 2025 (and Other Developments)

Littler on

While Americans across the country headed to the polls to decide who would govern their country, state, county, or city, most decisions were already made concerning what minimum pay rate would govern the employment of...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

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

SuperVision - Labor & Employment Law Insights, Issue 4, December 2024

Happy Holidays and welcome to our year-end issue of SuperVision. In this edition, we are pleased to bring you the “Top Five” biggest labor and employment issues that will impact employers for the coming year along with...more

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,...

Beltway Buzz - December 2024

The Beltway Buzz is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business....more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

2024-2025 Oregon Employment Law Year-End Update

As 2024 comes to a close and we look forward to 2025, we want to highlight recent changes in employment law that may have an impact on Oregon employers. The following provides a summary of events that occurred in 2024 and...more

Whiteford

Employment Law Update: Court Strikes Down 2024 Overtime Pay Regulations: What Employers Need To Know

Whiteford on

On November 15, 2024, the Eastern District of Texas invalidated the newly established overtime pay regulations issued by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) in 2024. These regulations incrementally increased the minimum salary...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

Cranfill Sumner LLP

Texas Court Tosses Biden Overtime Exemption Rule

Cranfill Sumner LLP on

In November, a Texas federal court struck down the Biden Department of Labor’s (DOL) rule that would have made millions of salaried workers eligible for overtime pay....more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

Texas Federal Court Turns Back Time on DOL’s 2024 Overtime Rule

On November 15, 2024, a federal court in the Eastern District of Texas issued an order striking down the U.S. Department of Labor’s 2024 rule raising the salary threshold for the Fair Labor Standards Act’s most common...more

Perkins Coie

Texas Court Invalidates Department of Labor’s 2024 Rule On Executive, Administrative and Professional Exemptions

Perkins Coie on

In a significant ruling, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has set aside a Department of Labor (DOL or Department) 2024 Rule, which sought to raise the minimum salary level for exemptions...more

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

FLSA Salary Basis Rule on Hold

On November 15, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide injunction vacating the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) new rule (the “Rule”) raising the minimum salary thresholds for the...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Texas Federal Court Strikes Down DOL’s Overtime Rule

Texas federal judge Sean D. Jordan recently blocked a new U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Rule that would have allowed certain workers making less than $58,656 per year to automatically become eligible for overtime premium pay...more

Perkins Coie

November Tip of the Month: Texas Court Nullifies DOL Overtime Rule: Employers Face Decisions

Perkins Coie on

On November 15, 2024, a Texas district court vacated, on a nationwide basis, a U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) rule that increased the salary thresholds applicable to the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) “white collar” and...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Federal Court Strikes Down 2024 DOL Overtime Rule Nationwide

On November 15, the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas invalidated the Department of Labor’s final rule that increased the minimum salary for executive, administrative, and professional (EAP) exemption...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Texas Court Blocks Increases to FLSA Salary Requirements for White-Collar Employees

On Nov. 15, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) final rule that increased the minimum salary requirements for employees exempt from the Federal Fair...more

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,...

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

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Five Months Since the End of Chevron Deference: The Department of Labor is Already Playing Defense

Tucker Arensberg, P.C. on

In a recent edition of this Newsletter, I wrote about the end of Chevron Deference and its potential impact on employment law broadly. Less than five months since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in the...more

1,373 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 55

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide