WASHINGTON D.C. — Section 13(b)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) provides an overtime exemption for drivers within the authority of the Secretary of Transportation under Section 204 of the Motor Carrier Act of 1935.
AUSTIN — After a Texas federal judge blocked then-President Barack Obama’s attempted expansion of overtime pay for millions of workers, the Department of Labor appears on the brink of retreating from the initiative altogether and putting a potential pay raise for millions of workers at risk.
SAN ANTONIO — The U.S. Department of Labor filed a notice of appeal to challenge a Texas federal District Court judge’s injunction against sweeping new overtime pay laws which were set to take effect in early December.
SAN ANTONIO — A federal judge with the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas recently handed down a stunning decision, ruling the Department of Labor overstepped its authority to raise the overtime pay threshold to $47,500.
SAN ANTONIO — The United States Department of Labor (DOL) recently filed an unpaid overtime lawsuit in Federal Court in Lubbock, Texas on behalf of workers who may be owed substantial overtime wages and other back pay.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The federal agency charged with enforcing national overtime pay laws and investigating wage theft recently settled its own unpaid overtime lawsuit with hundreds of government workers claiming they were misclassified as exempt from time and a half pay.