Politico is reporting that DOL will announce the final overtime rule tomorrow, May 18, 2016, and that the new salary threshold for exempt executive, administrative, and professional employees will be $47,500. The duties...more
On Monday, March 14, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor released its final overtime exemption rule to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The OMB will now conduct its concluding review of the regulation,...more
On February 16, 2016, a federal district court in Indiana held that former athletes at the University of Pennsylvania were not university employees entitled to the protections of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The...more
In its February 16, 2017 decision in Tsyn v. Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC, Case No. 14-cv-02552-LB, the federal district court for the Northern District of California confirmed that licensed financial advisors qualified for the...more
In its July 2015 notice of proposed rulemaking on the forthcoming changes to the “white collar” overtime regulations, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recognized employer concerns regarding the remote use of electronic...more
In its Fall 2015 Semiannual Regulatory Agenda, published last week, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) estimated a July 2016 timetable for the publication of the Final Rule containing the agency’s changes to the “white...more
Employers continue to prepare for the forthcoming changes to the overtime rules, particularly the increases in the minimum salary required for exemption as an executive, administrative, or professional employee. The U.S....more
On December 22, 2014, in Home Care Association of America v. Weil, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia vacated a key portion of a U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) regulation amending the minimum wage and...more
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U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division chief David Weil reportedly told Congress yesterday that the agency won’t extend the 60-day public comment period for its proposed revisions to the FLSA’s “white collar”...more
As described in our previous blog post last week, on June 30, 2015 the U.S. Department of Labor finally released its highly anticipated proposed regulations to amend 29 CFR Part 541, the Fair Labor Standards Act’s “white...more
On June 30th, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) unveiled its long anticipated proposed rule that will, if enacted, raise the minimum salary threshold required to qualify for exemption from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s...more
In March 2014, President Obama issued a memorandum to the U.S. Secretary of Labor directing the Secretary to modernize and streamline the existing overtime regulations for executive, administrative, and professional...more
Recently, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous judgment that government agency "interpretive rules" are not subject to notice-and-comment rulemaking, but cautioned that those same rules do not carry the "force and effect of...more
As anyone who follows wage and hour matters is aware, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”)—at the urging of the White House—is currently revising its regulations regarding who is exempt from the overtime requirements of the...more