District Court for the Eastern District of Texas invalidated the Department of Labor’s (DOL) 2024 Final Rule, which increased salary thresholds for overtime exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This decision in State of Texas v. Dep’t of Labor, Case No. 24-cv-468-SDJ,...
The DOL had sought to raise the minimum salary for the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) overtime exemptions for executive, administrative, and professional (EAP) employees and “highly compensated employees” (HCE). On January 1, 2025, the EAP...
The winding legal path of the 2016 “white collar” regulations has come to an end.On August 31, 2017, the Honorable Amos L. Mazzant of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas struck down the U.S. Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) regulation that would have, among...
a publication anticipating thenever-implemented DOL’s revised overtime regulations, which would have raised the salary threshold for previously-exempt employees