Employers may get a reprieve from having to increase salaries of exempt employees in light of a nationwide injunction entered in federal court.
On Nov. 22, a judge in the Eastern District of Texas issued an injunction preventing implementation of the U.S. Department of Labor overtime rule, which was supposed to take effect Dec. 1. The overtime rule would have raised the salary threshold for executive, administrative or professional exempt employees from $455 per week, or $23,660 annually, to $913 per week, or $47,476 annually.
