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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

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

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

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

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

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

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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

Burr & Forman

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

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

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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

McCarter & English, LLP

US Department of Labor’s Salary Threshold Hike for “White Collar” Overtime Exemptions Struck Down by Court

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On Friday, November 15, 2024, in Texas v U.S. Department of Labor, a federal district court vacated the US Department of Labor’s (DOL) April 2024 final rule that increased the salary thresholds for the executive,...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

Balch & Bingham LLP

State Of Texas V. Dep’t Of Labor And The Effect Of A National Vacatur

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On November 15, 2024, a federal district court in Texas vacated a Department of Labor (“DOL”) rule that raised the minimum salary at which executive, administrative, and professional (“EAP”) and “highly compensated” employees...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

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

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Federal Court Vacates DOL Overtime Rule

A federal court has vacated the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) 2024 final overtime rule, which increased the minimum salary threshold at which employees could be classified as exempt from overtime pursuant to the white...more

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