The U.S. Department of Labor is seeking public input on what to
do with the Obama administration overtime rule. In
Wednesday's edition of the Federal Register, the DOL published
a "Request for Information Defining and Delimiting the
Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside
Sales and Computer Employees." Interested parties will
have 60 days (until September 25, 2017) to provide comments.
A preview of the RFI is available here.
By way of recap, the DOL published the 2016 Final Rule on May
23, 2016 as part of the Obama administration's focus on
increasing pay equity. Under the Final Rule, the minimum salary
required to classify workers as exempt was increased from $23,660
to $47,476, which is the 40th percentile of average weekly wages of
full-time salaried employees according to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics. The rule was set to go into effect on December 1, 2016,
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