On November 22, Judge Mazzant of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide injunction against the Department of Labor blocking its Final Overtime Rule, which was set to go into effect on December 1, 2016. The Final Rule would have more than doubled the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) salary test for executive, administrative, and professional employees from $455 per week to $921 per week. White-collar employees earning below the $921 threshold would have been entitled to overtime. The Department of Labor rules also established a mechanism for the threshold to adjust automatically every three years starting in 2020.
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