A recent U.S. Department of Labor regulatory status report
indicates that no proposal to change the 2016 compensation
revisions affecting the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's
so-called "white collar" exemptions will be forthcoming
for at least ten months.
The latest
timetable shows an October 2018 projection for a Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking. USDOL's past practice suggests that
even this estimated timeframe might well not come to
pass.
Our September
response to USDOL's Request for Information opined that it
would be inexcusable to permit the dislocation, confusion,
distortion, and disruption provoked by the 2016 changes and related
litigation to drag-on for yet many more months than they
already have. We urged USDOL to expedite its review of the
public's comments and then quickly to formulate and publish a
remedial Interim Final Rule that has immediate effect but is also
subject to a shortened notice-and-comment period.
