Employees must also satisfy the duties test to qualify as exempt under the FLSA. Looking Ahead Employers should remain vigilant as litigation and regulatory challenges to overtime rules persist. For now, the 2024 Rule is vacated nationwide, restoring the preexisting salary thresholds. Organizations ...
administrative, or professional employee, an employee must now be compensated on a salary basis at arate of not less than $455 per week ($23,660 per year), exclusive of board, lodging, or other facilities.This salary level is incorporated into the standard job duties test, described below....
Meeting the salary threshold alone does not qualify an employee for exemption for overtime. What kind of work the employee does – job duties test An employee who meets the salary basis and salary level/threshold tests is exempt only if the employee also performs exempt job duties. There are...
granting summary judgment to the states and groups, and striking down the new regulations.The court based its holding on the fact that Congress defined the FLSA’s executive, administrative, and professional exemptions with a focus on employees’ duties.As a result, the DOL’s “authority ...
exempt under the FLSA. “To meet this duties test, an employee must customarily and regularly direct the work of at least two or more other full-time employees or their equivalent; the employee must have the authority to hire or fire other employees, or their suggestions and recommen...