that implement the exemptions from minimum wage and overtime pay requirements. The first phase of the rule becomes effective July 1, 2024 and the second phase becomes effective January 1, 2025. This final rule has the potential to impact a significant number of currently ove...
The DOL’s Overtime Rule The Department of Labor’s Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires employers to pay employees overtime if they work more than 40 hours in a workweek. The overtime rate is 1.5 times the employee’s regular pay rate. While this is a federal standard, ...
The Department of Labor's (DOL) Final Rule was scheduled to take effect on December 1, 2016. Until the inevitable lawsuit had been filed, there were legislative attempts to halt or at least delay the rise in the salary cutoff for exempt employees from $455 a week to $913 a week. The...
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,...
A salaried employee is not the same as an "exempt" employee, although the two phrases are often used interchangeably. Although there is often confusion over the job duties test, neither the 2016 overtime rule or new Final Overtime Rule changed the job duties. What Should Employers Do Now?
The U.S. Department of Labor recently issued its long-awaited proposed rule updating the minimum salary for the FLSA’s white-collar exemptions. The proposed rule will increase the standard salary level for exempt white collar employees by almost $20,000.Join Justin Barnes and Jeffrey Brecher,...
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is appealing a U.S. district judge’s recent ruling striking down the agency’s final rule “Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales, and Computer Employees...
Règle de l'octave (French f., literally 'rule of the octave') a mnemonic formula for the realisation of chords from an unfigured bass line Régleur de tonalité (French f.) tone control régner sur (French) to reign over Regola (Italian f.) rule, or precept, for composition or perfor...
DOL: Final Rule on Overtime Regulations; Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order; Fiduciary Rule; Miscellaneous EEOC: EEO‐1 Reports; Religious Bias IRS: Wellness Rewards; Marijuana NLRB OSHA: Final Rule to Modernize Injury Data Col... The expected last-minute flurry of regulatory updates ...
This NPRM would reverse the final rule published in 2011, and the DOL makes clear that “employers and courts should not rely on the statement in the 2011 Preamble that ‘bonus and premium payments . . . are incompatible with the fluctuating workweek method of computing overtime.’” The 201...