On Tuesday, November 22, 2016, Federal Judge Amos Mazzant issued a preliminary injunction on the Department of Labor's Overtime Rule. With this ruling, it puts a pause on the legislation as a whole. While employers will no longer have to meet the overtime rule, minimum salary threshold of $913 a week ($47,476) they should consider what next steps they will take. While there are no longer requirements to raise an employee's salary from the current threshold of $455 a week, co

The New Overtime Rule, effective December 1st, 2016, is expected to impact 4.2 million workers in the United States. In a nutshell, the legislation raises the minimum salary amount for exempt employees or more commonly referred to as salaried workers, from the current $455 a week requirement to $913 a week. As of December 1st, exempt employees must be compensated at the new minimum salary amount. For highly compensated employees, the salary increases from the current $10