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Yesterday, several employer groups and associations filed a federal lawsuit in the same court that, in 2017, stymied the U.S. Department of Labor‘s efforts to change the overtime rules by raising the minimum salary level needed to be exempt from receiving overtime. As I’ll explain below, the 2024 plaintiffs have also raised the same arguments that worked seven years ago.
It’s déjà vu all over again.
In 2016, the DOL issued a rule that would have increased the minimum salary required to classify executive, administrative, or professional (“EAP”) employees as exempt from overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act