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Conn Maciel Carey LLP

[Event] In-Person Breakfast Briefing: Wage & Hour Update - September 17th, Washington, DC

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Navigating wage and hour compliance is more complex than ever. This complimentary, interactive in-person briefing goes beyond the basics to explore the real-world challenges employers are facing today. Led by our dedicated...more

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Supreme Court Clarifies Burden of Proof in FLSA Exemption Cases, Leaves Key Questions Unanswered

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On Jan. 15, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in E.M.D. Sales, Inc. v. Carrera, which clarified that employers need only prove that an employee is exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) by a...more

Pullman & Comley - Labor, Employment and...

Important Update to our Wage Alert Regarding the DOL’s Final Rule Increasing the Salary Level for the Executive, Administrative...

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

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: Federal Judge Invalidates Department of Labor's Minimum Salary Increases

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

Cranfill Sumner LLP

Texas Court Tosses Biden Overtime Exemption Rule

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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

Perkins Coie

November Tip of the Month: Texas Court Nullifies DOL Overtime Rule: Employers Face Decisions

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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

Burr & Forman

Federal Judge Vacates Department of Labor's Salary Increase to FLSA White Collar Exemption

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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

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Federal Court Strikes Down Overtime Rule: What Employers Need to Know

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

Foley Hoag LLP

Texas Federal Court Nullifies DOL’s Final Rule on Federal Overtime Exemptions

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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

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Federal Court Vacates DOL Overtime Rule

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

Blank Rome LLP

Employers Are Extra Grateful This Thanksgiving After Federal Court Sets Aside DOL’s Salary Threshold Increase

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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

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

Federal Court Blocks Changes to Overtime Rules: Key Takeaways and Guidance for Employers

A federal judge in Texas has struck down the Biden administration’s overtime rule that would have extended overtime protections to an estimated four million additional workers. ...more

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

History Repeats Itself: Texas Court Enjoins DOL Salary Basis Hikes for a Second Time

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On Friday November 15, a federal judge in Texas issued a nationwide injunction barring the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) from enforcing new regulations raising the salary level required for the so-called white-collar...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Federal Judge Strikes Down Increased FLSA Salary Basis Threshold

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A federal judge in Texas recently ruled that the Department of Labor (DOL) did not have the authority to increase the salary basis threshold for the so-called “white-collar” exemptions from overtime.  This ruling means that...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Federal Court Strikes Down DOL’s 2024 Rule on Overtime Exemptions Nationwide

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Last Friday, a Texas federal court struck down the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) 2024 rule raising the minimum salary levels for certain exemptions to the overtime requirements of the Federal Labor Standards Act (FLSA)....more

Maynard Nexsen

FLSA Salary Rule Struck Down

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A Texas District Court in State of Texas v. U.S. Dep’t of Labor, struck down the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) 2024 Final Overtime Rule, which revised the minimum salary requirement for the executive, administrative, and...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Federal Court in Texas Vacates DOL’s Overtime Rule—What Now?

On Nov. 15, 2024, a federal judge in Texas vacated the U.S. Department of Labor’s rule that would have increased the salary threshold for white-collar exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Texas v....more

Quarles & Brady LLP

Federal Court Turns back Time on DOL’s Overtime Exemption Salary Threshold Rule: What Employers Need to Know

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On Friday, November 15, a Texas federal court turned back time on the minimum salary threshold rule for certain overtime exemptions under the Fair Labor Standard Act’s (“FLSA”)—halting the planned January 1, 2025, increase,...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Another Rule Bites the Dust: Court Invalidates Rule Requiring Higher Salaries to be Exempt from Overtime

On Friday, November 15, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas set aside the Department of Labor’s (DOL) rule increasing the minimum salary level for the executive, administrative, and...more

Morgan Lewis

Federal Court Holds DOL’s New Overtime Regulations Invalid

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The US Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) regulations setting a new salary threshold to be exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) were scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2025. On November 15, 2024, a judge from...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Texas Federal Judge Strikes Down ‎Minimum Salary Increases for ‎White Collar and Highly ‎Compensated Exemptions From Overtime,...

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For the second time in less than ten years, a federal judge in Texas has vacated and set aside the Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) attempt to raise the minimum salary thresholds to the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (“FLSA”)...more

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Federal court blocks DOL overtime rule nationwide

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On Friday, November 15, 2024, a federal judge in Texas blocked on a nationwide basis, a final rule that would have, among other things, increased the salary thresholds that must be met for employees to be classified as exempt...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Texas Court Strikes Down DOL’s Overtime Eligibility Expansion

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On November 15, 2024, a federal judge blocked the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) attempt to raise the minimum salary level for the executive, administrative, and professional (EAP) exemptions from minimum wage and overtime...more

Carlton Fields

Federal Judge Blocks DOL Rule Raising Overtime Exemption Salary Threshold

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On November 15, 2024, U.S. District Judge Sean Jordan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the Department of Labor’s 2024 regulations for executive, administrative, and professional (EAP)...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

2016 All Over Again: Texas Judge Rejects FLSA Exemption Salary Hike, Restores $35,568 Minimum

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A federal district judge has vacated the U.S. DOL’s 2024 rulemaking increasing the minimum salary employers must pay to exempt executive, administrative, and professional employees. That minimum now reverts to an annualized...more

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