FLSA - Overtime Exemptions

On October 12, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments in a case regarding whether an oil rig worker who performed supervisory duties and was paid more than $200,000 per year on a day rate basis is exempt from the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor

Who doesn’t like free samples when shopping? But are the representatives providing those samples actually “selling” them so that they are exempt from overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) as outside salespersons?

The issue of the proper application of the highly compensated employee exemption under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), as it applies to employees paid on a “day-rate” basis in the oil and gas industry, has been a hotly debated issue in recent years, especially in the Fifth Circuit Court

On August 31, 2020, the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued four opinion letters, one of which, Opinion Letter FLSA2020-11 , addressed whether certain employees in the oilfield services industry were exempt from the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Ac

The U.S. Department of Labor's Final Rule changing the "white collar" overtime requirements takes effect January 1, 2020. What’s your plan to be in compliance by the deadline? Do you want to make changes but need more guidance? Will you be dealing with overtime compliance while juggling open enrollm

As explained in “It’s About Time: New Overtime Rule Effective January 1, 2020,” the US Department of Labor finally released its highly anticipated changes to the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This rule, which goes into effect on January 1, 2020, will make more employees

You don't need to be an Earth, Wind, and Fire fan to realize September had all the elements necessary to make for a memorable month of developments concerning the minimum wage, tips, and overtime.

Earlier this week, the US Department of Labor (DOL) finally released its highly anticipated changes to the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

Today, the United States Department of Labor issued its final rule increasing the minimum salary for a worker to be exempt from overtime compensation under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), effective January 1, 2020.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has issued a new Final Rule updating the minimum salary requirements for the “white collar” (executive, administrative, and professional) overtime exemptions. The new rule goes into effect on January 1, 2020.

On Tuesday of this week, the U.S. Department of Labor announced the final version of its overtime exemption rule, raising the annual salary threshold workers need to meet to qualify for the “white collar” exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act to $35,568, or $684 per week. The final rule upda

The U.S. Department of Labor unveiled its long-awaited final rule on the overtime “white collar” exemptions on September 24, 2019. The regulations, at 20 CFR Part 541, were last updated in 2004, when the DOL increased the minimum salary level for exemption from $150 to $455 per week and made changes

On Tuesday, September 24, 2019, the Department of Labor published its Final Rule to the "white collar" overtime exemptions which goes into effect on January 1, 2020. With only 99 days until January 1, overtime compliance is now on the clock.

Today, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced its Final Rule updating the salary thresholds for the executive, administrative, and professional exemptions, as well as the highly compensated employees exemption, under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”).

Paying an employee a day rate of $1,000 per day satisfies the salary basis test for purposes of the overtime exemption applicable to a “highly compensated employee” (HCE) under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled (2-1). Faludi v. U.S. Shale

On August 21, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an opinion in Faludi v. U.S. Shale Solutions, L.L.C. that may prove to be an important decision for companies that utilize day rate compensation.1 The decision settled two important issues, concluding that: (1) a guaranteed d

On March 22, 2019, the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division will publish in the Federal Register its proposed rule to revise the overtime exemption regulations for executive, administrative, professional, outside sales and computer employees.

Executive Summary: The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently issued its proposed overtime regulations to replace the Obama administration’s (enjoined) overtime rule. The DOL raised the minimum salary threshold requirement for workers to qualify for the Fair Labor Standards Act’s white collar exemp

On March 7, 2019, the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor published the long-awaited Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to revise the “white collar” overtime exemption regulations to $35,308. Issued under the Fair Labor Standards Act, these regulations implement exemptions from

Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would raise the minimum salary threshold required for workers to qualify for the overtime exemptions for executive, administrative and professional workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The proposa