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Employment Law Now VIII-145 – Status Update: Injunctions for FTC Non-Compete Ban and DOL Overtime Exemption Regs
The Burr Broadcast: FLSA Overtime Exemption
What's the Tea in L&E? Alert: Salary Threshold for Exempt Employees Increases to $58,656
VIDEO: Major Changes Coming for Employers
The Burr Broadcast: Proposed Expanded Overtime Rule
Employment Law Now VII-135-Summer 2023 Wrap-Up Part 1 (NEW DOL OVERTIME RULE)
California Employment News: The Executive Pay Exemption
Employment Law Now: IV-51 - A New 2020 Vision
[WEBINAR] 2019 Annual Labor & Employment Update
Employment Law This Week®: DOL’s Final Overtime Rule, CA Codifies “ABC Test,” Pay Data Collection Beyond 2018, NLRB’s Busy Summer
III-44- A Little Help From The DOL
III-42-The New Overtime Rule and Antitrust Issues With Your Non-Competes
II-36- Holiday Party Tips, the 2018/2019 Federal Regulatory Agenda, and Noteworthy Cases On Suing and Being Sued
II-30- Tackling 3 Big Wage and Hour Questions for Employers
The Clock Is Ticking: What Employers Need to Know NOW About DOL's New Overtime Rules
As the final quarter of 2024 begins, many employers are turning to the year-end review process. While you’re planning for raises, bonuses, and other employee incentives this comp season, you’ll need to account for the new...more
As we previously discussed, the United States Department of Labor (the “DOL”) issued a final rule in the spring of 2024 (the “2024 Rule”) substantially increasing the minimum salary level for the executive, administrative,...more
Employers have been following legal challenges to the U.S. Department of Labor’s second round of increases to the minimum salary that must be paid to meet the requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act’s white collar...more
What about those salary thresholds for white-collar employees? Although they have been challenged, they are alive and kicking. Last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed that the Department...more
On September 11, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Mayfield v. U.S. Department of Labor confirmed that the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) has the authority to use a salary basis to define its...more
Real World Impact: On September 11, 2024, in Mayfield v. Department of Labor, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the Department of Labor’s (DOL) authority to set minimum salary thresholds for overtime...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On September 11, 2024, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held in Mayfield v. U.S. Department of Labor that the Secretary’s salary test for evaluating overtime exemptions are valid...more
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
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
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
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
If one Texas employer has its way, we wouldn’t be fighting over whether the Department of Labor has the right to raise the floor of the salary basis test for determining OT exempt status – we’d instead conclude that the...more
As we reported last fall, the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor (DOL) issued a proposed rule in September 2023 to significantly increase the standard salary level applicable to the overtime exemption for...more
Effective July 1, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor’s new overtime rule took effect throughout the country, except in the state of Texas (where due to ongoing litigation, Texas employees that are employed by the state of...more
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
UPDATE: On 3 July 2024, the Northern District of Texas preliminarily enjoined the US Federal Trade Commission from implementing and enforcing its Final Rule banning non-competes against the US Chamber of Commerce, the...more
In our most recent bulletin on the new Final Rule increasing salary levels for exempt white-collar employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act, we noted that there was an additional challenge to the new regulations and that...more
A federal court in the Eastern District of Texas halted enforcement of the salary threshold increases following challenges to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Final Rule – Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive,...more
As our prior legal alert detailed, the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor on April 23, 2024 announced its Final Rule increasing salary thresholds for the Executive, Administrative, and Professional (“EAP”)...more
As we previously reported, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a new final rule increasing the minimum salary amounts for the executive, administrative, and professional (EAP) and highly compensated employee exemptions....more
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
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
On April 23, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final rule which included a two-step raise of the federal minimum salary requirement for exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Beginning...more
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
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