Implementation of the new standards, which increased the salary threshold under the FLSA for classifying workers as exempt whitecollar employees, was enjoined by U.S. Judge Amos Mazzant III of the Eastern of District of Texas on November 22, 2016, after 21 states and various business groups f...
VIII-154 - Court Invalidates DOL's 2024 Overtime Salary Threshold Increases This past Friday, November 15, 2024, a federal court in Texas struck down on a nationwide basis the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 regulations that significantly increased the minimum salary thresholds for federal law...
district court found that the Obama-era salary threshold was so high that it made the job duties portion of the exemption test irrelevant and expanded protections to workers that Congress sought to exclude. That ruling could be used against the latest proposal by the DOL if a court were to ...
Implementation of the new standards, which increased the salary threshold under the FLSA for classifying workers as exempt whitecollar employees, was enjoined by U.S. Judge Amos Mazzant III of the Eastern of District of Texas on November 22, 2016, after 21 states and ...