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The Employer Handbook BlogPODCAST: Enjoined OT Rules – Now What?
Really, Eric. Another post about those darn Department of Labor overtime rules?!?
Hold up! This one’s different.
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Trump’s new DOL pick has zero damns to give about the new overtime rules
Yesterday, President Elect Donald J. Trump tapped Andy Puzder to run the Department of Labor.
Over on that Twitter jawn, I was asked for my hot take on what Mr. Puzder’s appointment as Secretary of Labor means for the DOL’s proposed overtime rules. Continue reading
Join me at 3 pm EST today on Twitter for a SHRM #nextchat on these dang DOL #OvertimeRules.
Today is your lucky day.
For, your see, I have received special permission from my Illuminati brothers and sisters to share with you the secret to navigating this morass that is the U.S. Department of Labor overtime rules and the recent nationwide injunction.
The DOL wants to undo that #OvertimeRule injunction lickety-split!
December 1, 2016 was quite a day!
First, on the day that the Department of Labor’s new overtime rules would have taken affect, I blew up the U.S. Department of Labor‘s spot by winning my 5th ABA Blawg 100 award.
But, buried below the fold was this news that the DOL had appealed a Texas federal court’s nationwide injunction of its overtime rule.
Before you hit the reset button on all those changes you made for the DOL Overtime Rules…
Did you have a nice Thanksgiving holiday?
How many of you gave thanks to that federal court in Texas for entering a nationwide injunction on the DOL overtime rules?
Federal Judge Stops U.S. Department of Labor’s Overtime Rule
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In a massive stroke of irony, a federal judge — one appointed by President Barack Obama — entered a nationwide injunction Tuesday to stop the implementation of the U.S. Department of Labor Fair Labor Standards Act overtime rules that would have taken effect on December 1, 2016.
In March 2014, President Obama directed the Secretary of Labor to “modernize and streamline” the existing overtime regulations for executive, administrative, and professional employees” (read: create more overtime $$$ because raising the minimum wage wasn’t working).
Nearly three years later, the crown jewel of President Obama’s HR-compliance legacy is on ice and could be completely undone.
My 2 cents on President-Elect Trump’s impact on HR-compliance in 2017. (Literally, worth 2 cents)
I’ll open this post with a haiku. Because, I feel like we could all use a haiku.
President-Elect
For HR, what will he do?
Not a stinkin’ clue!
Folks, let’s dispel some FLSA myths about salaried employees
If I had a quarter for every time I heard someone criticize me for acting aloof at Starbucks by ordering a “medium” rather than a “grande” use the term “salaried-exempt,” I could play air hockey all day at Chuck-E-Cheese.
Hmm, that sounded less creepy in my head. But, seeing it typed out and all, yeah, sorry.
I’m training the U.S. Army South on social media at work, and other news…
Yep, if you need me this morning, I’ll be at Fort Sam Houston, giving my spiel to U.S. Army South and some folks from Guantanamo Bay on social media and the workplace. How cool is that!
(In a dorky lawyer kinda way).
While that’s going down, let me catch you up with some other recent HR-compliance nuggets:
3d Cir: Employers cannot use paid meal breaks to offset unpaid overtime
A few weeks ago, I blogged here about a federal agency — one that rhymes with EEOB — reaching a 7-figure settlement with its workers of alleged Fair Labor Standards Act overtime violations involving comp time.
Last week, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion, in which it addressed another tricky situation involving overtime offsets.