We have been waiting for the United States Department of Labor to announce its plan for toning down the overtime rule revisions implemented in the last administration, but stayed by federal courts, and to announce its own proposal. Now, that momentous event has happened—the agency announced yesterday it will set the salary threshold at $35,308
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USDOL Information Request Indicates the Direction It Wants the New OT Exemption Rules To Go
By Mark Tabakman on
I have blogged often on these new OT regulations and now it seems the game is continuing, with opposition (not unexpected) from the current administration. The USDOL has released its request for information (RFI) on the revision of the white-collar overtime exemption rules. This has engendered, and will continue to engender, a great deal of…
Business Groups Want Fast Hearing On DOL Changes: Hope They Get It!
By Mark Tabakman on
Posted in Exemptions, Overtime Issues
I blogged about this a short time ago. More than fifty (50) business groups requested that a US District Court Judge render a fast decision in the case involving the constitutionality of the USDOL’s new overtime regulations, i.e. the doubling of the salary threshold. The case is entitled Plano Chamber of Commerce et al. v.
Lawsuits Filed In Effort To Stop New FLSA Salary Levels: An Exercise in Futility?
By Mark Tabakman on
Posted in Exemptions, Overtime Issues
For the last several months, I have been talking to and advising clients on strategies to deal with the advent of the new FLSA salary regulations, i.e. the $913 per week commencing December 1, 2016. Maybe all that was for naught? This is because more than fifty business groups and twenty-one (21) States have filed…
The New FLSA Exemption Salary Proposal: It Don’t Worry Me!
By Mark Tabakman on
The news is out that the US Department of Labor has (finally) proposed the long-awaited revisions of the FLSA regulations. In a bold initiative, the agency proposed to raise the salary threshold to almost $1000 per week (to $50,440 annually). This is more than double the current minimum salary level of $455 per week, or…
Collective Action Defeated Through Finding Of Exempt Status of Accountants: Glory Be The Day!
By Mark Tabakman on
Posted in Class Actions, Exemptions
The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals court has concluded that a lower court’s dismissal of a collective action filed by accountants was legally proper on the basis that the Company did not misclassify these accountants as exempt. In an area of wage-hour law that is rife with all manner of shades of gray, this is…