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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

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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

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Legal News Unwrapped? The Most Watched Employment Law Developments of 2024

It’s that time of year when apps and services unveil their highly anticipated top-5 lists. It’s a phenomenon we can’t seem to get enough of, as these viral posts offer intriguing insights into the trends we’ve embraced...more

Rumberger | Kirk

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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Federal Judge Vacates Department of Labor's Salary Increase to FLSA White Collar Exemption

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Earlier this year, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced increases to the salary threshold for the “bona fide executive, administrative, or professional” exemption and the “highly compensated employee” exemption to the...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Not So Final: Texas Court Vacates the DOL’s 2024 Final Overtime Rule

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On November 15, 2024, a district judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a significant, albeit somewhat unsurprising, opinion in Texas v. Department of Labor, vacating the U.S. Department of...more

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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

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Federal Court Strikes Down Overtime Rule: What Employers Need to Know

On November 15, 2024, a federal district court in Texas struck down the U.S. Department of Labor ("DOL") Final Rule that would have made over four million additional workers eligible for overtime pay. The Final Rule...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

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Back to the Future: Texas Court Puts A Stop To The DOL's Expanded Salary Thresholds

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On November 14, 2024, a federal judge in the Eastern District of Texas issued an order vacating the recent U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) Final Rule, which raised the minimum salaries employers had to pay certain employees...more

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A Game of Texas Hold’em:  How Texas Stopped Wage Increases for Salaried Exempt Employees Nationwide

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On November 15, 2024, a federal court in Texas vacated a U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) rule (the “2024 Rule”) that increased the minimum salary threshold for employees classified as exempt from overtime and minimum wage...more

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Texas Federal Court Sets Aside DOL Overtime Rule

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The US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas struck down the US Department of Labor (DOL)’s final rule raising the minimum salary level for the executive, administrative, and professional (EAP) and the highly...more

Woods Rogers

What's the Tea in L&E? DOL Drama: Court Vacates Overtime Expansion Rule

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What’s the Tea in L&E is a video series focused on the latest trends and updates in labor and employment law. In this short video, Woods Rogers L&E attorneys Leah Stiegler and Emily Kendall Chowhan explore the Texas district...more

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