{"id":633,"date":"2019-03-13T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/?p=633"},"modified":"2022-06-05T13:16:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T23:16:02","slug":"usdol-ot-rule-sets-flsa-minimum-salary-threshold-at-35308","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/news-and-information\/usdol-ot-rule-sets-flsa-minimum-salary-threshold-at-35308\/","title":{"rendered":"USDOL OT Rule Sets FLSA Minimum Salary Threshold at $35,308"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) has issued a proposed rule raising the minimum salary threshold required for employees to qualify for Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) white collar exemptions from overtime pay to $35,308 (or $679 per week). The proposed threshold is about $12,000 higher than the currently enforced minimum of $23,660, and about $12,000 lower than the threshold in a 2016 rule proposed by the Obama administration but which was invalidated by a federal court judge before it could go into effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new rule, which defines exemptions for executive, administrative and professional (EAP) employees, also:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Allows employers to use nondiscretionary bonuses and incentive payments (including commissions) to satisfy up to 10 percent of the standard salary level;<\/li><li>Raises the annual salary threshold for highly compensated employees (HCEs) from $100,000 to $147,414; and<\/li><li>Proposes regular increases to identified thresholds every four years following public comment (the 2016 rule proposed automatic increases every three years).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Once published in the Federal Register, the public will have 60 days to comment. The rule is expected to take effect in January 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What does this mean for employers?<\/strong>&nbsp;An up-to-date review of exempt employees and their duties will be helpful in anticipation of 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, see the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/whd\/overtime2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DOL website<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/whd\/overtime\/FSOT2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DOL fact sheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update March 22, 2019:<\/strong>&nbsp;The USDOL&#8217;s proposed rule was published today in the Federal Register. The public commentary period runs through May 21, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) has issued a proposed rule raising the minimum salary threshold required for employees to qualify for Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) white collar exemptions from overtime pay to $35,308 (or $679 per week). The proposed threshold is about $12,000 higher than the currently enforced minimum of $23,660, and about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}