
Update on the Overtime Rule
This writer reported recently that, on November 22, 2016, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide injunction halting the planned December 1, 2016 effective date of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Overtime Rule. The Department of Labor has now appealed the nationwide preliminary injunction. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear the appeal on an expedited basis. Briefing of the issue will be complete by January 31, 2017 –