The Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (DOL-WHD) has scheduled a series of “listening sessions” to be held around the country in order to hear stakeholder views on issues related to the agency’s regulations implementing the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA’s) overtime and minimum wage exemption for executive, administrative, and professional employees, often referred to as the “white collar” exemption.
Stakeholders have been anticipating a new proposal by DOL-WHD to overhaul the white collar regulations ever since a federal court ruled in 2016 that the Obama Administration’s attempts to revise the rule were unlawful. Rather than publishing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, however, DOL-WHD will now instead move forward with five listening sessions, which as a practical matter means it is likely to be several more months before a proposed rule is issued. In the meantime, the pre-Obama rules issued in 2004 remain in effect.
The five listening sessions will be held in Atlanta, Seattle, Kansas City, Denver, and Providence during the month of September.
Members of the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC) can read more here.