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The Wagner Law Group

Overtime Exemption Update: Judge Vacates DOL Rule Increasing Overtime Salary Threshold

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Exempt or not exempt, that is the question. It is not an easy question to answer, and it did not get any easier to answer when U.S. District Judge Sean D. Jordan vacated the Department of Labor (“DOL”) rule on overtime...more

Perkins Coie

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

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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

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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

Laner Muchin, Ltd.

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

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

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

The Post-Chevron World: 2024 Overtime EAP Exemption Rule Vacated

After filing to vacate the Department of Labor’s (DOL) promulgation of a new overtime rule, the State of Texas and other plaintiffs recently won their case in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Texas....more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Responding to the Vacated FLSA Salary Threshold Rule

On November 15, 2024, a federal judge in the Eastern District of Texas overturned the 2024 Department of Labor (DOL) rule (the 2024 Rule) increasing the salary threshold for certain exempt employees under the Fair Labor...more

Smith Anderson

DOL Increased Salary Threshold Rule Struck Down Nationwide

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On November 15, 2024, a District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Texas struck down the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) 2024 final rule, which raised the minimum salary threshold levels for the FLSA’s “white-collar”...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

It’s Over for Overtime Expansion: Texas Court Axes DOL Rule That Would Have Reclassified Millions of Employees as Overtime...

On November 15th, Judge Sean Jordan of the Eastern District of Texas halted a 2024 Department of Labor (“DOL”) Final Rule (“2024 Rule”) that massively increased salary requirements for employees classified as “exempt” from...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Federal Court Vacates DOL's 2024 Overtime Rule

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On November 15, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a ruling in State of Texas et al. v. United States Department of Labor et al., vacating a DOL 2024 final rule (2024 Rule) that sought to...more

Lathrop GPM

Texas Federal Court Vacates U.S. Department of Labor’s Exempt Salary Threshold Rule with Nationwide Effect

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On November 15, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ruled that the U.S. Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) 2024 final rule on exempt salary thresholds is unlawful. The ruling has nationwide effect....more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

DOL Overtime Final Rule Vacated Nationwide

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On November 15, 2024, a Texas federal court ruled that the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) final rule raising the salary threshold for “white collar” minimum wage and overtime pay exemptions (the Overtime Final Rule), which...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

A Federal District Court Struck Down the Department of Labor’s Minimum Salary Increase for Exempt Employees: Now What?

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On November 15, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas overturned a 2024 rule that raised the salary threshold for workers to qualify for an exemption under the Fair Labor Standards Act...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

Goodwin

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

Williams Mullen

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

Holland & Knight LLP

Federal Court Vacates Department of Labor Overtime Exemption Rule

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A federal district court in Texas on Nov. 15, 2024, issued an order vacating the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) rule that had raised the salary threshold levels for the white-collar overtime exemptions. The rule increased the...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

Houston Harbaugh, P.C.

Federal Court Nixes DOL Recent & Upcoming Salary Minimum Increases

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A federal district invalidated on a nationwide basis the regulation issued last April by the U.S. Department of Labor that increased the minimum salary required under federal law for employees otherwise qualifying as exempt...more

BCLP

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

Robinson Bradshaw

U.S. DOL Rule Invalidated Nationwide, Reverting Salary Minimums to 2019 Thresholds

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On Friday, Nov. 15, a federal judge in Texas struck down the U.S. Department of Labor’s 2024 rule regarding salary minimums for exemptions from minimum wage and overtime requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act that...more

Shutts & Bowen LLP

Federal Court Strikes Down the DOL’s Increased Salary Thresholds for Executive, Administrative, Professional, And Highly...

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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

Venable LLP

Feels Like Déjà Vu: Increases to the Salary Threshold for Overtime Exemptions Are Blocked (Again)

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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

Butler Snow LLP

Back to 2019 – Eastern District of Texas Vacates 2024 DOL Overtime Rule

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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

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