Sam Lillard's article "Keeping An Eye On Likely Changes
In Overtime Rules" was featured in the Ohio Assisted Living
Association's (OALA) January 2016 newsletter.
As you have likely heard, the Obama Administration and the U.S.
Department of Labor (DOL) have teamed up to propose changes to the
regulations governing which executive, administrative, and
professional employees (i.e., white collar workers) are entitled to
the Fair Labor Standards Act's minimum wage and overtime pay
protections. These changes, which could become effective as early
as August of 2016, target raising the minimum salary threshold for
white collar workers to be considered exempt under the FLSA.
Currently, for a white collar worker to satisfy the
exemption's salary threshold, that worker must receive a salary
of at least $455 per week (or $23,660 per year). The proposed
change would increase this minimum salary to $970 per week (or
$50,440 per year). It would also raise the salary threshold
