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With summer nearing, employers across North Carolina and the country are swelling their ranks with seasonal employees. This article aims to update employers about the current state of federal law for paying workers who work...more
During the Biden administration, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final regulation (the “2024 Rule”) seeking to increase the salary threshold for overtime eligibility for the “white-collar” exemption (also referred...more
Starting a new year is a good opportunity for employers to review compensation structures to ensure sure they are paying their employees enough to meet the salary thresholds necessary for an employee to maintain their exempt...more
In November, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas blocked the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) final rule discussed below. See Texas v. U.S. Dep’t of Lab., No. 4:24-CV-468-SDJ, 2024 WL 4806268 (E.D. Tex....more
On November 15, 2024, in Texas v. United States Department of Labor, a Texas federal district court struck down a U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) final rule that would have raised the minimum salary threshold for exempt...more
On November 15, 2024, the Eastern District of Texas invalidated the newly established overtime pay regulations issued by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) in 2024. These regulations incrementally increased the minimum salary...more
On April 23, 2024, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued a Final Rule that significantly increased the minimum salary required for employees to be classified as exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Specifically,...more
In November, a Texas federal court struck down the Biden Department of Labor’s (DOL) rule that would have made millions of salaried workers eligible for overtime pay....more
In a significant ruling, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has set aside a Department of Labor (DOL or Department) 2024 Rule, which sought to raise the minimum salary level for exemptions...more
On November 15, 2024, a Texas district court vacated, on a nationwide basis, a U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) rule that increased the salary thresholds applicable to the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) “white collar” and...more
On November 15, the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas invalidated the Department of Labor’s final rule that increased the minimum salary for executive, administrative, and professional (EAP) exemption...more
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is appealing a U.S. district judge’s recent ruling striking down the agency’s final rule “Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales,...more
Earlier this year, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced increases to the salary threshold for the “bona fide executive, administrative, or professional” exemption and the “highly compensated employee” exemption to the...more
On November 15, 2024, a Texas federal judge struck down a rule finalized earlier this year by the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) that increased the minimum salary requirements to be considered an exempt employee under the...more
On November 15, 2024, a federal district court in Texas struck down the U.S. Department of Labor ("DOL") Final Rule that would have made over four million additional workers eligible for overtime pay. The Final Rule...more
Shades of the wage-and-hour uncertainty that accompanied the end of President Obama’s administration in 2016 reappeared last week following a federal court’s decision to invalidate President Biden’s proposed overtime rule. ...more
On November 14, 2024, a federal judge in the Eastern District of Texas issued an order vacating the recent U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) Final Rule, which raised the minimum salaries employers had to pay certain employees...more
On November 15, 2024, a federal court in Texas vacated a U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) rule (the “2024 Rule”) that increased the minimum salary threshold for employees classified as exempt from overtime and minimum wage...more
On November 15, 2024, a federal district court in Texas vacated a Department of Labor (“DOL”) rule that raised the minimum salary at which executive, administrative, and professional (“EAP”) and “highly compensated” employees...more
On Friday, November 15, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (“District Court”) issued a decision invalidating the April 2024 Department of Labor (“DOL”) rule which increased the minimum...more
A federal court has vacated the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) 2024 final overtime rule, which increased the minimum salary threshold at which employees could be classified as exempt from overtime pursuant to the white...more
Salary threshold. . .$35,568.00. . .the Eastern District of Texas. . .not the classic answers you expect to hear from your loved ones around the Thanksgiving table when you ask, “Hey guys, what are you most thankful for?”...more
Last Friday, a federal district court in Texas issued a decision blocking both rounds of increases in the minimum salary required to claim the overtime exemption for executive, administrative, and professional employees under...more
On November 15, 2024, in the case of State of Texas v. United States Department of Labor, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated and set aside the rule issued by the U.S. Department of...more
On November 15, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, set aside and vacated the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) 2024 Rule increasing the minimum salary threshold for employees under the...more