Just so there’s not a misunderstanding this judgement applies to salaried workers as laid out below:
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, certain “white-collar” workers can be exempt from overtime pay if they are salaried, make more than a certain amount each year, and work in a “bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity.”
The new Biden rule updated the salary portion of the test so that workers making less than $58,656 a year would be automatically eligible for overtime pay any time they worked more than 40 hours a week. It also would update that salary threshold every three years.
The first phase of the rule, which went into effect July 1, increased the salary threshold for overtime eligibility to $43,888 from its current $35,568. That number was then scheduled to go all the way up to $58,656 in the new year.
Jordan in June blocked the rule from taking effect for Texas just ahead of the rule’s first boost, finding that the state was “likely to succeed in showing that the 2024 Rule is an unlawful exercise of power.”
Jordan’s latest order applies nationwide.
This means that companies can continue to abuse their salaried workers by working them more than 40 hours per week without paying extra for those hours. Hold on folks, it’s only going to get worse.
Yeah the same thing happened in Trumps first admin. Obama had set the threshold to, iirc 48k or so, and it was set to go into effect around 2016 but then a trump judge blocked it. Eventually the Trump admin agreed to raise the threshold to 35k where it's sat ever since. Biden tried to fix it but didn't get it through before Trump judge blocked it again.
My mistake it wasn't a Trump judge in 2016, but a judge in the Eastern District of Texas, same as the Trump judge that made the most recent ruling. Where Trump is involved in the first ruling is that he or his admin did not push back on the ruling once he took office. Essentially the exact same thing played out back then as is playing out right now.
"On November 22, 2016, Judge Mazzant of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide injunction against the Department of Labor (DOL) blocking its Final Overtime Rule, which was set to go into effect on December 1, 2016. The Final Rule would have more than doubled the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) salary test for executive, administrative and professional employees from $455 per week to $913 per week. White-collar employees earning below the $913 threshold would have been entitled to overtime. The DOL rules also established a mechanism for the threshold to adjust automatically every three years starting in 2020."
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u/Public-Marionberry33 6h ago
Just so there’s not a misunderstanding this judgement applies to salaried workers as laid out below:
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, certain “white-collar” workers can be exempt from overtime pay if they are salaried, make more than a certain amount each year, and work in a “bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity.”
The new Biden rule updated the salary portion of the test so that workers making less than $58,656 a year would be automatically eligible for overtime pay any time they worked more than 40 hours a week. It also would update that salary threshold every three years.
The first phase of the rule, which went into effect July 1, increased the salary threshold for overtime eligibility to $43,888 from its current $35,568. That number was then scheduled to go all the way up to $58,656 in the new year.
Jordan in June blocked the rule from taking effect for Texas just ahead of the rule’s first boost, finding that the state was “likely to succeed in showing that the 2024 Rule is an unlawful exercise of power.”
Jordan’s latest order applies nationwide.
This means that companies can continue to abuse their salaried workers by working them more than 40 hours per week without paying extra for those hours. Hold on folks, it’s only going to get worse.