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U.S. Division of Justice attorneys requested the fifth U.S. Circuit Courtroom of Appeals to briefly droop the Labor Division’s appeals in two instances difficult its 2024 Honest Labor Requirements Act time beyond regulation rule, in keeping with an April 24 courtroom submitting.
Texas district courtroom judges twice blocked DOL’s closing rule, which elevated the minimal wage threshold for time beyond regulation pay eligibility in two steps. First, a November 2024 choice sided with plaintiffs together with the state of Texas and enjoined the rule nationwide. A second judgment put aside and vacated the rule in response to a lawsuit by advertising company Flint Avenue.
The federal government requested that the fifth Circuit place its appeals in abeyance “pending the company’s reconsideration of the rule.” It stated counsel for the appellees in each instances didn’t oppose its request.
The Biden administration’s effort to broaden time beyond regulation eligibility to tens of millions of U.S. employees would have pushed the annual minimal threshold beneath the FLSA to $58,656 in 2025 with computerized, further will increase each three years starting in July 2027. An preliminary enhance to $43,888 per yr took impact earlier than Texas federal judges blocked it together with the rule’s different parts.
Your entire coverage is virtually sure to be erased by the second Trump administration, in keeping with attorneys who beforehand spoke to HR Dive. Previous to the Biden-era rule, DOL had final elevated the overtime-pay threshold throughout Trump’s first administration in 2019.
