On September 25, the United States Department of Labor issued a final regulation dealing with salary levels for overtime pay. This is the overtime rule. This is not the first time I’ve talked about this, there are other blog posts. But, those posts dealt with the Obama administration. The...
Here is a quick update on the overtime rules newly proposed by the United States Department of Labor. The notice of proposed rulemaking on overtime requirements (which is the first step of the Labor Department’s regulatory process) has been issued. Under the current enforced law dealing...
A couple of years ago, I freaked out some people when I started writing on changes made to overtime policies by the Department of Labor. After appropriately scaring everyone, it turned out that a federal judge in Texas gave several folks a big fat Christmas...
Back in November, a federal judge in Texas ordered a temporary, nationwide injunction against the implementation of the Department of Labor's white collar overtime rule. The government appealed that decision and that appeal has been ongoing. Well, we have a new President now (in case you...
On Friday, before Snowzilla descended on Washington, DC, the Supreme Court dropped a bomb on collective actions across the board when it issued an opinion in Campbell-Ewald Co. v. Gomez. On the surface, Cambell-Ewald is a case about the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, in which...
In June 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposing changes to the rules for exempt workers, those generally classified as executive, administrative and professional (EAP) staff, computer professionals, as well as highly compensated individuals. The effect...