On April 26, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor published a final rule, Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales, and Computer Employees, increasing the minimum salary limit to be exempt from overtime and minimum wage requirements under the...
The job duties of the traditional "learned professions" are exempt. These include lawyers, doctors, dentists, teachers, architects, clergy. Also included are registered nurses (but not LPNs), accountants (but not bookkeepers), engineers (who have engineering degrees or the equivalent and perform ...
It is also worth noting that exemption status under the FLSA usually requires that the employee receive pay of at least $684.00 each week to qualify. However, non-exempt workers may earn even higher wages but not qualify for exempt status due to their job classification or duties. FLSA is a...
However, Section 13(a)(1) of the FLSA provides an exemption from both minimum wage and overtime pay for employees employed as bona fide executive, administrative, professional and outside sales employees. Section 13(a)(1) and Section 13(a)(17) also exempt certain computer employees. To qua...
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(1). The primary duty of an exempt learned professional must be performing work that requires advanced knowledge (i.e., work that is predominantly intellectual in character rand requires the consistent exercise of discretion and judgment) in a field of science or learning customarily ...