The FLSA provides three basic white-collar exemptions to federal overtime requirements: the Executive, Administrative and Professional exemptions (collectively referred to as the “EAP” exemptions). To satisfy each exemption, the employee must receive a basic salary threshold, be paid on a salary ba...
The DOL has appealed a federal judge’s recent decision striking down its increases to the salary thresholds for the white-collar exemptions from the FLSA’s overtime requirements. The rule increased the minimum salary to $43,888 per year on July...
(FLSA) 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 curr...
that are "exempt" from the FLSA's minimum wage, overtime and record-keeping requirements. Although everyone has been focused on the salary level threshold because of the myriad of controversy around the DOL's proposals, the salary level threshold is just one of the requirements that must be ...
Discusses the revisions to the overtime pay rules proposed by the U.S. Department of Labor. Provisions of the Fair Labor Services Act (FLSA); Inclusion of large number of employees; Minimum salary requirements in the eligibility criteria....
doubled the minimum salary requirements for workers classified as exempt from overtime under the FLSA’s executive, administrative, and professional exemptions.The court held that the DOL overstepped its rulemaking authority by increasing the salary threshold to a point that rendered employees’ duties ...
The FLSA exempts from its minimum wage and overtime requirements any “employee employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity” who satisfies certain duties and salary-related requirements. The law allows salaried employees to receive additional compensation, including wages ...
There is nothing more helpful to workers and businesses in setting up their relationships, and managing them to conform to legal requirements, than for regulatory bodies and courts to provide specific guidance regarding the effect of common fact s...
A federal judge in Texas blocked a Department of Labor (DOL) rule that increased salary thresholds for certain exemptions from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
As to who constitutes a “supervisor” or “manager,” and is thus excluded from accepting tips from a tip pool, the Final Rule explains that the duties test (butnotthe salary basis or level requirements) applicable to the “white collar” executive exemption will control who meets these ...