News & Analysis as of

White-Collar Exemptions Highly Compensated Employees Corporate Counsel

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

Fisher Phillips

How Does the New Overtime Rule Impact Highly Compensated Employees? 5 Answers for Employers

Fisher Phillips on

Many employers are scrambling to comply with the Labor Department’s new salary threshold for employees who are exempt from overtime pay under the white-collar exemptions. As the July 1 deadline for phase one rapidly...more

Epstein Becker & Green

DOL Offering Webinars on Final Overtime Rule

Epstein Becker & Green on

As we have previously addressed, the U. S. Department of Labor (DOL) has issued its final rule raising salary thresholds for overtime exemptions under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) effective January 1, 2025. ...more

Littler

DOL Proposes to Significantly Increase the Minimum Salary Level to Qualify for the “White Collar” Overtime Exemptions

Littler on

On August 30, 2023, the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to revise the “white collar” overtime exemption regulations applicable to executive,...more

Littler

Supreme Court Holds Day Rate Pay Cannot Satisfy the Salary Basis Test

Littler on

On February 22, 2023, the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion in Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt, holding that paying an employee a “day rate” does not satisfy the salary basis test under the...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Supreme Court Case on Highly Compensated Employees Will Test Limits of FLSA Salary Test

Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that may determine whether employers can claim the overtime exemption under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) for highly compensated workers who are not paid...more

Holland & Knight LLP

En Banc Fifth Circuit Holds Highly Paid Rig Worker Not Covered by FLSA Overtime Exemption

Holland & Knight LLP on

In a decision that will impact pay practices in the oil and gas and many other industries in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and beyond, the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed on Sept. 9, 2021, that...more

Smith Anderson

U.S. DOL Issues Three New Opinion Letters

Smith Anderson on

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) released three new opinion letters last week that address various compliance requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). In its accompanying press...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

When Is A Seemingly Exempt Employee Not Truly Exempt?

Foley & Lardner LLP on

Exemption rules under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) are complicated and can often be frustrating for employers. Determining which employees in a workforce may or may not be exempt from entitlement to overtime pay...more

9 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"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