Dive Brief:
- The U.S. Department of Labor’s final rule updating the standard by which some workers may be excluded from the overtime pay requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act cleared review by the White House Thursday.
- The details have not been made public but DOL last year proposed to increase the minimum annual salary threshold that determines overtime pay eligibility from $35,568 to $55,068. If adopted as proposed, the rule also would provide for automatic future updates to the threshold every three years. The exemption applies to workers employed as bona fide executive, administrative, professional and outside sales employees, as well as some computer employees.
- The final rule now must be published in the Federal Register before it can take effect. In December, DOL projected that the rule would be published in April.
Dive Insight:
This is a developing story.