Texas Federal Court Delays Effective Date of the DOL’s New Overtime Rule as Applied to Texas as an Employer
On June 28, 2024, a judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas blocked the enforcement of the new U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) rule to raise the minimum salary thresholds for the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) white-collar overtime exemptions against the state of Texas. The ruling comes just days before the first increase was set to take effect on July 1, 2024.