by Girish Anand | Jan 11, 2019 | DOL, Overtime Rules
The long-anticipated rewrite of the Obama-era overtime rule has been submitted to the White House and its Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review prior to the issuance of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), it has been reported. This Trump-era rule is...
by Girish Anand | Oct 17, 2018 | DOJ, DOL, Overtime Rules
The Department of Labor (DOL) initially said it expected to release a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on overtime in January, but in its just-released fall regulatory agenda, that date has been pushed back until March. The agenda says the NPRM “will propose...
by Girish Anand | May 10, 2018 | DOL, Overtime Rules
In its latest regulatory agenda, the Department of Labor (DOL) confirms that its effort at creating a new overtime rule to replace the one now under a nationwide injunction is being pushed into 2019 from its original October 2018 deadline. In late November 2015, a...
by Girish Anand | Apr 30, 2018 | FLSA, Minimum Wage Law, Overtime Rules
It’s an issue that California has somewhat definitively solved, but one with which the nation’s courts have struggled: If your work requires you to sleep on the job, are you thereby eligible for minimum wage, if not overtime, during your non-waking hours?...
by Girish Anand | Apr 2, 2018 | FLSA, Overtime Rules, U.S. Supreme Court
In a win for auto dealerships, the Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that “service advisers” — those individuals who advise customers on which type of servicing or repair is needed on their car — are exempt from overtime. The Department of Labor...
by Girish Anand | Mar 21, 2018 | DOL, Overtime Rules
A group of Chipotle workers in New Jersey filed suit to be paid under the Obama overtime rule that raised the exemption threshold to $47,476 a year, and U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant — who issued a permanent injunction against the rule — wasn’t...