January 01, 2025
The Biden administration's rules determining overtime eligibility, sorting out whether workers are independent contractors and raising federal contractors' minimum wage face uncertainty in 2025. Here, Law360 looks at how those three rules may change.
November 27, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor plans to turn to the Fifth Circuit after a Texas federal court axed the department's rule raising the salary thresholds to consider employees exempt from overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
November 15, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor lacked the authority to raise the salary threshold for a Fair Labor Standards Act overtime exemption, a Texas federal judge ruled Friday, striking down a hotly contested rule that has been in effect since July.
August 09, 2024
The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision nixing the Chevron doctrine highlights that Congress gave the U.S. Department of Labor the authority to regulate Fair Labor Standards Act provisions and raise salary thresholds, the department told a Texas federal court.
July 19, 2024
A slew of business groups urged a Texas federal court to halt on a nationwide basis the U.S. Department of Labor's rule raising salary thresholds for a federal overtime exemption, arguing they raise identical arguments the court already sided with.
June 14, 2024
A U.S. Department of Labor rule that the agency says would extend overtime protections to an estimated 4.3 million workers in its first year faces opposition in the courts and in Congress that could topple the recently finalized regulations. Here, Law360 reviews five threats to the Biden administration's overtime rule.
May 23, 2024
A group of business associations urged a Texas federal court to block a 2024 U.S. Department of Labor rule raising the minimum salary on overtime exemption for executive, administrative or professional employees, saying the rule doesn't rectify the errors from a 2017 rule that the same court enjoined.