Just days before Labor Day, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) unveiled its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”), aimed at revising the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime exemptions for executive, administrative, and...more
8/31/2023
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White-Collar Exemptions
In this excerpt from our FLSA Handbook, we provide a is a “Sample Job Assessment Questionnaire Form” which is useful for reviewing exempt classification. The Handbook’s appendices contain two sets of guidelines to support the...more
Because exempt misclassification issues are among those more prominently revealed during Wage-Hour Division investigations and are often the focus of costly litigation, this chapter of our FLSA Handbook explains the most...more
At last, the federal government has filed its reply brief in the Fifth Circuit concerning its appeal from a Texas district court’s order preliminarily enjoining the 2016 revisions to the FLSA’s executive, administrative, and...more
The Department of Labor’s release of the new exemption regulations appears imminent. As we have reported in a number of posts, these new rules are expected to nearly double the minimum annual salary level required for...more
In the wake of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage & Hour Division proposal to amend the “white collar” exemptions, some members of the United States Congress are struggling with how they will comply with the new law....more