On November 15, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the Department of Labor's (DOL) April 26, 2024, final rule increasing the minimum salary threshold for exemptions to the Fair Labor...more
On April 23, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final rule which included a two-step raise of the federal minimum salary requirement for exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Beginning...more
7/5/2024
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Returning to its long-standing practice of issuing opinion letters (which had ceased in 2010), and after reissuing 17 previously withdrawn opinion letters on January 5, 2018, the Department of Labor (DOL) yesterday issued...more
4/16/2018
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