Recently, a Texas federal judge struck down an Obama
administration Department of Labor rule that doubled the salary
employees must make to be considered exempt from overtime
pay. The rule's invalidation should provide immediate
relief to employers concerned about additional overtime pay, or
increased salaries that the Obama administration's overtime
rule would have required.
In 2016, after years of consideration, the Obama administration
issued the long-anticipated DOL rule that increased the minimum
salary for exempt workers (workers exempt from receiving overtime
pay) from $23,600 to just more than $47,000, and the minimum salary
for workers who qualify for the "highly compensated"
exemption from $100,000 to about $134,000. Late last year,
U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant issued a preliminary injunction
that blocked the rule from coming into effect. Judge Mazzant
granted summary judgment in favor of certain business groups that
had challenged the Obama
