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Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Court blocks new FLSA salary thresholds... but only for State of Texas employees

There was good news and bad news on Friday from one of the lawsuits challenging the U.S. Department of Labor’s regulation increasing the salary threshold for the so-called white-collar exemptions to the overtime requirements...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

SuperVision - Labor & Employment Law Insights, Issue 1, April 2024

Welcome to our first SuperVision e-newsletter of 2024. Although we are only four months into 2024, it has already been an incredibly active year on the labor and employment front. On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission...more

Gould + Ratner LLP

U.S. Supreme Court Finds Employee Making $200,000 Is Entitled to Overtime Pay

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The U.S. Supreme Court recently held that a rig oil worker paid at a daily rate that amounted to $200,000 annually was entitled to overtime pay because he was not paid on a “salary basis” as required by the Fair Labor...more

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Supreme Court Finds Highly Compensated Supervisor Entitled to Overtime Pay Under the FLSA

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In a recent opinion (Helix Energy Sols. Grp., Inc. v Hewitt), the Supreme Court held that a highly compensated supervisor paid on a daily-rate basis was not an executive exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA)...more

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SCOTUS Holds Highly Compensated Daily-Rate Employees May Be Entitled to Overtime

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On February 22, 2023, the Supreme Court clarified the requirements for highly compensated employees to be considered executives exempt from overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). In Helix Energy Solutions...more

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Supreme Court Holds that Daily-Rate Employees are Entitled to Overtime Compensation

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In Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt, the Supreme Court of the United States issued an important decision regarding whether highly compensated employees paid on a daily-rate basis were entitled to overtime...more

Mintz - Employment Viewpoints

Supreme Court Clarifies the Meaning “Salary Basis” Under Federal Overtime Law

The U.S. Supreme Court recently held that an employee who earned in excess of $200,000 annually was entitled to overtime pay because he did not qualify for the FLSA’s highly compensated employee exemption. This decision –...more

Brooks Pierce

SCOTUS Ruling Reinforces FLSA Overtime Requirements and Exemptions

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In its most recent employment decision, the Supreme Court rejected an employer’s efforts to avoid paying overtime to a highly-compensated oil rig employee, finding that the employee’s daily pay rate did not satisfy the...more

Perkins Coie

Day-Rate Rules Result in Overtime Pay for Exempt Highly Compensated Employee

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Recently, in Helix Energy Solutions Group v. Hewitt, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a daily-rate worker who earned over $200,000 annually was not exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) overtime requirements. In...more

Frantz Ward LLP

The United States Supreme Court Confirms that “Salary Basis” Under the FLSA Really Means “Salary Basis”

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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled in Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt that an employee who earned more than $200,000 a year was not exempt from overtime pay under the FLSA’s highly compensated employee...more

K&L Gates LLP

Reminder: High-Earning Exempt Professionals Must Be Paid a "True Salary—A Steady Stream Of Pay"

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On 22 February 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a high-earning professional must be paid on a salary basis to be exempt from overtime rules. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), an employee is exempt from...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

SCOTUS Rules That Worker Who Was Paid High Daily Wage is Non-Exempt and Entitled to Overtime Pay

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On February 22, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that an employee who is paid a daily rate for each day worked, no matter how high the rate, is not exempt from the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Supreme Court Upholds Ruling That FLSA Overtime Exemption Didn’t Apply to Day-Rate Rig Worker

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On Sept. 9, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held a highly compensated rig worker was not exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA’s) overtime requirements because the employee was paid on a day...more

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US Supreme Court Rules Highly Compensated Employee Is Not Exempt from Overtime

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On February 22, 2023, the US Supreme Court held in Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt that an employee who was paid nearly $1,000 each day he worked was not exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Supreme Court’s Helix Energy Solutions Group Decision Clarifies Salary-Basis Test for Highly Compensated Employees

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As we reported earlier this week, on February 22, 2023, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt, finding that a daily-rate worker who earned over $200,000 annually was not exempt...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Supreme Court Says White Collar Exemptions Require Payment of a Salary, Even for Highly Compensated Workers

On Wednesday, in a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed a lower court decision finding that a highly compensated employee who was paid a day rate did not qualify as exempt from the overtime requirements of the Fair...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Yes, you can you make $200K a year and still get overtime, SCOTUS says

On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in Helix Energy Solutions, Group, Inc. v. Hewitt, deciding that a supervisor who was paid a daily rate and earned more than $200,000 a year was not exempt...more

Paul Hastings LLP

Employers Must Pay Highly-Compensated Employees On A Salary Basis For FLSA’s Exemptions

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The U.S. Supreme Court, in Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc. v. Hewitt, held that a highly-paid employee who received a daily rate, rather than a fixed weekly salary, did not qualify as exempt under the Fair Labor Standards...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Supreme Court Decides Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt

On February 22, 2023, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt, No. 21-984, holding that a “daily rate worker” was not exempt from the FLSA’s overtime guarantees...more

BakerHostetler

Supreme Court Adopts Strict Construction of Salaried Test, Even for Highly Paid Exempt Employees

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One relatively common misapprehension by employers is that generous wages or popular methods of payment will satisfy the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). On February 22, 2023, the Supreme Court reiterated the need not simply...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Can the Justices Add Clarity to the Salary Basis Test for White Collar Overtime Exemptions?

The U.S. Supreme Court has accepted the Petition for Certiorari of Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. to review an issue splitting the federal Courts of Appeals under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The Justices have...more

Jackson Walker

The Labor and Employment Horizon—2019

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If there has been one constant in employment law over the last generation, it is change. The forecast for 2019 is no different. In Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Texas Legislature, employers can expect developments that...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Employment Law - April 2018 #2

Ninth Circuit: Prior Salary Can’t Justify Wage Differential - Why it matters - Noting that “[s]alaries speak louder than words,” the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit ruled that employers may not justify a...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Supreme Court Rejects Narrow Interpretation of FLSA Statutory Exemptions

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• In Encino Motorcars, LLC v. Hector Navarro, et al., the U.S. Supreme Court decided 5-4 that service advisors at car dealerships are exempt from overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). • The Court held...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Encino Motorcars, LLC v. Navarro: SCOTUS Puts The Brakes On Faulty FLSA Construction Language

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Employers seeking to show that they correctly have classified an employee as exempt from the FLSA’s overtime requirements often have faced hostility from courts under the misimpression that FLSA exemptions...more

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