I am pleased to share with you an article I wrote for the Corporate Counsel section of ALM.
On July 6 in the Federal Register, the U.S. Department of Labor published proposed changes to the Fair Labor Standard Act's white-collar exemptions. Under federal law, these include the following categories: executive, administrative, professional, outside sales and computer professional. The last is not recognized under some state laws, but remember that employees always get whichever is the more protective between federal and state laws.
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Jonathan A. Segal is a managing partner at Duane Morris LLP and a member of the firm's Employment Services Group. He is a routine contributor to SHRM, Fortune, Entrepreneur, and Businessweek as an employment law specialist. You can find him on Twitter @Jonathan_HR_Law.
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