Today, Judge Sean D. Jordan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas granted summary judgement to the State of Texas and a coalition of business groups in their lawsuit against the Department of Labor’s (DOL) regulation expanding overtime eligibility to millions of workers.
This morning, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) made its proposed rule on “Heat Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings” available to the public on the Federal Register. Interested parties will have 120 days to comment on the rule. The text
A federal judge for the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Texas on Friday granted the state of Texas’ request for an injunction that would temporarily block implementation of the Department of Labor’s (DOL) final overtime rule. The emergency relief is limited to
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division will offer a series of online seminars to provide a general overview of requirements for employers to comply with the agency’s updated overtime rule, Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales, and Computer Employees, which
Today, the Department of Labor finalized its regulation entitled Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales, and Computer Employees covering exemptions from the Fair Labor Standard Act’s (FLSA’s) minimum wage and overtime regulations. The final rule increases the standard salary level as well as the
Bob’s Point of View: Nothing is more demonized in modern management than overtime, a phenomenon created by the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act, “New Deal” legislation. The intent was to put more people to work. Today, with our low levels of unemployment, both employers and
The Department of Labor (DOL) took its first formal step to remove the Overtime Exemption Rule. DOL has asked for input regarding the impact the current rule would have had on employers had the federal court not stopped it. NCA and our allies on the
The Federal Court’s November 22 preliminary injunction stopped the Overtime Exemption Rule from going into effect on December 1. This rule would have increased the minimum weekly salary an employee must earn to be considered exempt from overtime to $913 from the current minimum weekly salary is
At 6:00 p.m. last evening, a federal district court judge in Texas ruled that the Department of Labor’s (DOL) new Overtime Rule should be stopped. The ruling means that the rule WILL NOT go into effect on December 1, 2016 and that all clubs may
Two lawsuits have been filed against the Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) Overtime Exemption Rule, alleging that the rule is unconstitutional. The first lawsuit has been filed by 21 states, claiming that their state budgets and school boards cannot absorb the new rule’s higher minimum weekly