On May 18, 2016, President Obama and Secretary Perez announced the publication of the Department of Labor’s final rule updating the overtime regulations, which will automatically extend overtime pay protections to over 4 million workers within the first year of implementation.
As employers have been scrambling to review job descriptions and salaries before the December 1, 2016 deadline, a US Court judge puts the Department of Labor’s rules on hold. A group of states filed a lawsuit stating that the Department of labor’s OT rule overstepped the government’s authority.