{"id":1562,"date":"2024-11-25T13:03:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T18:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2024-11-25T13:03:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T18:03:34","slug":"update-flsa-overtime-rule-blocked-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/2024\/11\/25\/update-flsa-overtime-rule-blocked-nationwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: FLSA Overtime Rule Blocked Nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Payroll-Overtime-Resized-01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1714\" style=\"width:302px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Payroll-Overtime-Resized-01.png 800w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Payroll-Overtime-Resized-01-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Payroll-Overtime-Resized-01-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On November 15, 2024, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated and set aside the US Department of Labor (DOL)\u2019s final regulation increasing the salary threshold for the \u201cwhite collar\u201d overtime exemption under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) on a nationwide basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court had previously enjoined enforcement of the rule against the State of Texas in its capacity as an employer of state employees.&nbsp;However,&nbsp;its final decision now vacates the rule for all employers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means that the January 1, 2025 increase will not go into effect as scheduled, and the July 1, 2024 increase is nullified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Littler:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.littler.com\/publication-press\/publication\/federal-court-strikes-down-rule-raising-salary-threshold-white-collar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Federal Court Strikes Down Rule Raising Salary Threshold for White Collar Overtime Exemptions<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 15, 2024, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated and set aside the US Department of Labor (DOL)\u2019s final regulation increasing the salary threshold for the \u201cwhite collar\u201d overtime exemption under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) on a nationwide basis. The court had previously enjoined enforcement of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1003,"featured_media":1714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[86,85,87],"class_list":["post-1562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal","tag-blocked","tag-flsa","tag-nationwide"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1591,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions\/1591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}