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The U.S. Department of Labor’s Final Rule Increasing the Salary Threshold for EAP Exemptions Took Effect, Except for the State of...

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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

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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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Workplace Law Update: 10 Essential Items on Your July To-Do List

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law, especially since the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace. In order to ensure you stay on top of the latest changes and have an action plan...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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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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Business Groups File Lawsuit to Block DOL’s Raised Salary Thresholds for White Collar Overtime Exemptions

On May 22, 2024, more than a dozen business groups and a company filed a lawsuit seeking to block the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) new final rule that significantly raises the minimum salary thresholds for the Fair Labor...more

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Déjà vu All Over Again: The DOL Overtime Rule Faces Legal Challenge

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The first challenge to the Department of Labor’s overtime rule has landed, but what the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas will do with it and how any decision will affect businesses...more

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Federal Court Upholds DOL’s Authority to Set Minimum-Salary Test for White-Collar Exemption

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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has statutory authority to impose a salary requirement to qualify for an exemption from overtime under the executive, administrative, and professional exemptions under the Fair Labor...more

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Salary-Threshold Autopilot Still Possible

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A BloombergBNA report suggests that the U.S. Department of Labor is seriously considering retaining the Obama Administration's procedure (or something like it) for automatic "updates" to the compensation thresholds specified...more

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The Parties’ Briefs in Nevada v. DOL Are In…Now What?

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Seyfarth Synopsis: On June 30, the Department of Labor filed its reply brief to support its appeal from a preliminary injunction that enjoined the DOL from implementing its 2016 revisions to the salary-level tests for...more

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Texas Judge Enjoins New FLSA Rules

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To enjoin or not to enjoin – that certainly was the pivotal question answered today with respect to the legal fight over the FLSA Final Overtime Rule issued in May 2016. As we recently reported, in mid-September 2016,...more

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Breaking News: Judge Says He Will Issue Ruling on November 22 Regarding DOL Proposed OT Rule!

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As we reported recently, 21 States and multiple business groups have filed suit in the Eastern District of Texas seeking a delay in the implementation of the proposed OT rule set for December 1. ...more

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States and Business Groups Seek to Halt Implementation of Revised Overtime Rules; Employers Encouraged to Stay The Course

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While new overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act are being challenged in court, employers should still prepare for a likely December 1 effective date. On September 20, 2016, 21 states and more than 50...more

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Two Lawsuits Hope to Put the Brakes on Overtime Rule Changes

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With a December 1 deadline looming, millions of employers across the country are scrambling to implement new compensation and classification practices in response to the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) new overtime rule,...more

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DOL Overtime Rule Update: Breaking News!!!!!

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On September 20, 2016, two lawsuits were filed in an attempt to block the DOL’s proposed overtime rule. Wisconsin joined 20 other states in filing one suit while the U.S. Chamber of Commerce along with 50 other business...more

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States and Businesses Seek Injunction to Prevent DOL Overtime Rule From Taking Effect on December 1

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On September 20, 2016, business groups and states filed two lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas challenging President Obama’s new overtime rule that is set to take effect December 1, 2016. ...more

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21 States File Suit Challenging the DOL’s New Overtime Rule

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Earlier yesterday, a group of 21 states filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas challenging the Department of Labor’s new overtime rule, which is set to take effect on December 1,...more

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Beware Offering "Examples" In Comments To USDOL

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Comments on the U.S. Labor Department's proposed changes in regulations defining the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's Section 13(a)(1) exemptions are, for the moment, still due on Friday, September 4, 2015. USDOL is...more

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