Judge Issues Injunction on New DOL Regulation

On November 22, 2016, Judge Amos L. Mazzant, Federal Judge in the Eastern District of Texas, issued a preliminary injunction on the new Department of Labor Overtime Wage Regulations, scheduled to take effect December 1, 2016.

As a reminder, the Department of Labor issued regulations this past summer that would have raised the minimum amount of salary to pay an exempt manager under the Fair Standards Labor Act from $23,500 to $47,400. This dramatic increase was opposed by approximately 20 different states, as well as several chambers of commerce who sued on behalf of private businesses nationwide. Those two lawsuits were consolidated in Judge Mazzant’s court.

Learn what this injunction means for employers here.