Client Alert
In a move that has been anticipated for months, on March 15, 2016, the Department of Labor took one of the final steps toward making its new overtime rules a reality. As previously reported, on June 30, 2015, the Wage and Hour Division of the Department released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that overhauls the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime regulations, officially titled “Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales, and Computer Employees.” The Rules have now gone through a two-month comment period, which despite protest, was not extended.
