On November 15, 2024, a federal judge sitting in the Eastern District of Texas found that the Biden administration’s Department of Labor (DOL) exceeded its statutory authority by issuing its April 23, 2024 final rule (the...more
11/25/2024
/ Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Federal Labor Laws ,
Final Rules ,
Highly Compensated Employees ,
Over-Time ,
Salaried Employees ,
Statutory Authority ,
Vacated ,
Wage and Hour ,
White-Collar Exemptions
On April 23, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced its final rule increasing the salary thresholds for the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) overtime exemptions for executive, administrative, professional, and...more
4/26/2024
/ Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Exempt-Employees ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Final Rules ,
Highly Compensated Employees ,
Minimum Salary ,
Over-Time ,
Salaried Employees ,
Wage and Hour ,
White-Collar Exemptions
This is the fourth in our 2024 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several...more
2/27/2024
/ Board of Directors ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Corporate Governance ,
Cybersecurity ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Final Rules ,
Insider Trading ,
Popular ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Recordkeeping Requirements ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Fraud ,
Securities Regulation ,
Shareholders ,
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) ,
White Collar Crimes
On August 8, 2023, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final rule interpreting the federal Davis-Bacon Act, the federal law governing payment of wages to construction workers working on federally funded...more
On May 20, 2020, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) released a Final Rule authorizing employers that use the “fluctuating workweek” method for calculating employees’ regular rates of pay to award employees additional...more