U.S. District Court Vacates DOL’s Rule Increasing Salary Levels for ...

17 hours ago · On Friday, November 15, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the federal Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) final rule (“Final Rule”) raising the …

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2 days ago · The decision was made in the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas, and it means the previous threshold for overtime of $35,500 has been restored.

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Did Texas block the 2024 overtime final rule?

The District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has decided to block the US Department of Labor’s (DOL) 2024 overtime final rule. The ruling reverts the minimum salary threshold for overtime pay eligibility under the Fair Labor Standards Act to previous levels. ...

Will Texas raise minimum salary thresholds for white-collar overtime exemptions?

On June 28, 2024, a judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas blocked the enforcement of the new U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) rule to raise the minimum salary thresholds for the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) white-collar overtime exemptions against the state of Texas. ...

Will Texas block Dol's new salary thresholds for white-collar exemptions?

A federal court in the Eastern District of Texas granted the state of Texas’s request for a preliminary injunction to block the DOL’s new rule raising the salary thresholds for the white-collar exemptions. The order is limited to enjoining enforcement of the rule against the state of Texas as an employer. ...

What is the 2024 overtime rule?

The 2024 overtime rule (the “2024 Rule”) would have, among other things, increased the minimum salary for exemption as executive, administrative, or professional (“EAP”) employee from $684 per week ($35,568 annualized) to $844 per week ($43,888 annualized) effective July 1, 2024 and to $1,128 per week ($58,656 annualized) effective January 1, 2025. ...

What is state of Texas v US Dep't of Labor?

Notably, the decision—in State of Texas v. U.S. Dep’t of Labor, No. 4:24-CV-499-SDJ (E.D. Tex.)—arises from the same division of the same federal district court that invalidated the Obama administration’s new overtime rule in 2016. ...

What is the Texas lawsuit against the Dol final rule?

The Texas lawsuit is one of three federal court challenges to the DOL final rule, including another one filed in the Eastern District of Texas by more than a dozen business groups led by the Plano Chamber of Commerce. In addition to the preliminary injunction, the court in the Texas case consolidated those two lawsuits. ...