Barring something completely unexpected, the new overtime rules—effectively setting a federal minimum wage of $913 per week ($47,476 per year) for most exempt executive, administrative, or professional employees—will take...more
10/12/2016
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On September 28, 2016, the House of Representatives passed a bill to delay the effective date of the new overtime rule by six months (from December 1, 2016 to June 1, 2017). ...more
On December 1, 2016, the annual cost of classifying most executive, administrative, or professional employees as “exempt” from the overtime rules more than doubles ($23,660 to $47,476). Is your company ready for this change?...more
8/24/2016
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The DOL has released detailed information about the new overtime exemption rule, which is expected to be published in the Federal Register on May 18, 2016. As predicted in our prior post, the new regulation will take effect...more
According to Bloomberg BNA, the DOL’s final overtime rule, which is expected to be released May 18, 2016, will take effect December 1, 2016, not within 60 days as previously indicated. This gives employers nearly 200 days to...more
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 March 2, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that residential loan underwriters of Huntington National Bank are administrative employees under the FLSA and therefore not entitled to overtime pay. ...more
On December 30, 2015, a federal district court in Manhattan ruled that a temporary contract attorney was not entitled to overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act or the New York Labor Law for the time he spent assisting in...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
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