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Fifth Circuit Upholds DOL’s Minimum Salary Requirement for FLSA White-Collar Exemptions

On September 11, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) authority to use a salary basis to define its white-collar overtime exemptions....more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Fifth Circuit Considers Whether Labor Department Has Authority to Require Minimum Salary for Exemptions

The Department of Labor’s decision to significantly increase the minimum salary required to claim the so-called white-collar exemptions from federal overtime requirements has prompted legal challenges from employers. ...more

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State Laws Complicate Salary Requirements for Exempt Employees

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With the U.S. Department of Labor’s recent increases to the minimum salary or fee amount for certain exempt employees, many employers are reviewing the exemption status of their employees. In doing so, employers should be...more

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Increased Salary Thresholds for Exempt Employees Under the Fair Labor Standards Act Now Effective

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As we previously reported, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a Final Rule adjusting the minimum annual salary that an employee must be paid to qualify for the executive, administrative, and professional (“EAP”)...more

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DOL Overtime Rules and Institutions of Higher Education - Where Are We, What’s Next, and What Can We Do?

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After much nail biting and wondering when to jump the train track, on July 1, 2024, the new overtime thresholds for non-exempt employees went into effect for everyone – outside of Texas. Now the rest of us are subject to the...more

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Somethings Aren’t Bigger in Texas

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A federal judge in Texas recently held the Department of Labor’s (DOL) rule increasing the annual salary threshold for the exemption provided for executive, professional and administrative employees (the “white-collar...more

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The USDOL’s FLSA Salary Increase is Partially Enjoined

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As previously reported here, the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) issued its final rule providing that, effective July 1, 2024, the salary threshold under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) for the white collar overtime...more

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U.S. District Court Does Not Prevent Department of Labor’s New Overtime Rule From Taking Effect (For Most) (For Now)

As widely covered, the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”), in April 2024, issued a new rule that increased the salary thresholds for the overtime exemptions for executive, administrative, and professional (“EAP”)...more

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Federal Judge in Northern District of Texas Denies Nationwide Preliminary Injunction to Block the DOL’s New Overtime Rule

On July 1, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas refused to block the enforcement of the new U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) rule to raise the minimum salary thresholds for the white-collar overtime...more

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Federal Court Denies Injunction Against New FLSA Overtime Exemption Salary Level

On Monday, a federal district court in Texas denied a request for a temporary injunction that would have prevented the Department of Labor’s increase in the minimum salary from taking effect for certain employees. The DOL’s...more

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UPDATE – DOL’s New Minimum Salary Requirements for the FLSA’s White-Collar Exemptions Take Effect (For Every Covered Employer...

In April, we wrote about the U.S. Department of Labor’s new regulations set to take effect on July 1, 2024.  These new regulations significantly increase the minimum salary required for employers to meet the Fair Labor...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Are You in Compliance with the New FLSA Salary Threshold?

We previously posted here regarding a July 1, 2024, increase in the salary threshold for overtime exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Despite multiple legal challenges to the Department of Labor’s 2024 Rule,...more

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

Update: Overtime Rule now Partially in Effect, but Supreme Court Overturns Longstanding Agency Deference in Overturning Chevron

As noted in our June 24, 2024 blog and client alert, the Department of Labor’s new Overtime Rule is subject to several legal challenges, including in Texas. On Friday, a federal judge in the Eastern District of Texas...more

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Unless You Are the State of Texas As An Employer, Salary Changes to the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Overtime Rule Took Effect...

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As previously reported, on April 23, the DOL issued a final rule updating and revising the regulations implementing the FLSA’s EAP exemption. The final rule makes three core changes...more

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Texas Federal Court Delays Effective Date of the DOL’s New Overtime Rule as Applied to Texas as an Employer

On June 28, 2024, a judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas blocked the enforcement of the new U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) rule to raise the minimum salary thresholds for the Fair Labor...more

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Federal Salary Threshold for Exempt Employees Set to Rise in July and January

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Effective July 1, 2024, the federal Fair Labor Standards Act salary threshold for exempt, white-collar employees will increase to $43,888 (or $844 per week). However, a bigger increase is in store for next year. On January 1,...more

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Texas Seeks Order Blocking Enforcement of DOL’s New Overtime Rule Ahead of July 1 Effective Date

The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) new rule to raise the minimum salary thresholds for the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) white-collar overtime exemptions could be delayed as it faces multiple legal challenges, alleging...more

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Update: Stricter Overtime Rules Go Into Effect in One Week (Unless They Don’t)

As covered in our April 2024 blog and client alert, the US Department of Labor has unveiled a new rule, substantially increasing the salary threshold for exemptions to mandatory time-and-a-half overtime, that is set to take...more

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ICYMI: Business Groups Sue to Block DOL Rule Increasing Salary Thresholds for Exempt Employees

More than a dozen business groups last month filed a much-anticipated lawsuit seeking to block the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) new final rule that will significantly raise the minimum salary thresholds for exempt...more

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The Department of Labor Set to Expand Overtime Protections for Millions of Salaried Workers but Will Face Familiar Legal...

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Section 13(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act provides an exemption from both minimum wage and overtime pay for employees employed as bona fide executive, administrative, professional, computer, and outside sales...more

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National Business Associations File Suit to Block New DOL Overtime Rule

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On May 22, 2024, a group of national business associations filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) from implementing its new Final Rule on overtime. As we noted in our prior alert, the new rule...more

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Who Gets Overtime Pay Under New DOL Rule?

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The DOL recently released a rule that will extend eligibility for overtime pay to millions of salaried workers. Currently, most workers who make an annual salary of less than $35,568 are eligible for overtime pay....more

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The Department of Labor Significantly Increases Salary Thresholds for Overtime Exemptions

The Department estimates that the changes will affect approximately 4.3 million employees in the first year of implementation and cost employers $803 million over the first 10 years of implementation. Under a two-step...more

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Department of Labor to Expand Access to Overtime Pay Substantially in Two Phases Beginning July 1, 2024

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On April 23, 2024, the Department of Labor (DOL) released a final rule raising the minimum salary thresholds for certain overtime exemptions under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which effectively expands the...more

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DOL Issues Final Rule that Increases Compensation Threshold for Exempt Employees

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The Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a final rule on April 23, 2024,* raising the salary threshold for the so-called “White-Collar” and “HCE” Exemptions to the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (“FLSA”) overtime pay requirement...more

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