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From 2010 to 2021 the number of employees increased by 9% while the number of "managers" increased by 47%, according to an analysis of Department of Labor data by the National Bureau of Economic ...
A federal judge in Texas on Friday permanently blocked a Biden administration rule that would have made about 4 million more salaried U.S. workers eligible for overtime pay. U.S. District Judge ...
The rule would have required employers to pay overtime premiums to salaried workers who earn less than $1,128 per week, or about $58,600 per year, when they work more than 40 hours in a week ...
Before January 1, 2021, the Illinois Freedom to Work Act prohibited employers from entering into a covenant not to compete with Illinois employees earning the greater of (1) the hourly rate equal to the minimum wage required by the applicable federal, State, or local minimum wage law or (2) $13.00 per hour. [33] [34]
The solicitor of labor was originally located in the Department of Justice until it was transferred to the Department of Labor in 1933. In 1940, all Department attorneys and legal personnel were transferred to the supervision of the solicitor of labor.
The Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the United States Department of Labor is the federal office responsible for enforcing federal labor laws. The Division was formed with the enactment of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. [ 1 ]
The threshold will increase to the equivalent of an annual salary of $43,888, or $844 a week, starting July 1, and then to $58,656, or $1,128 a week, on January 1, 2025.
Department of Labor poster notifying employees of rights under the Fair Labor Standards Act The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 29 U.S.C. § 203 [ 1 ] ( FLSA ) is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage , and " time-and-a-half " overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week.