The Department of Labor has, once again, issued new proposed overtime regulations that would increase the salary level threshold for exempt employees to $35,308 per year ($679 per week). While this is an increase to the current salary threshold of $23,660 per year ($455 per week), the proposed salary level does not go as high as the previous Obama-era rule of $47,476 per year. There is no change to the job duties test for exempt employees in the proposed regulations. The proposed regulations would increase the salary threshold for "highly compensated employees" from $100,000 per year to $147.414 per year, allowing those employees who meet the new salary threshold to meet a less stringent duties test in order to be exempt. The exact date the new rules will take effect is not yet known, but DOL hopes they will be implemented in early 2020.
--Grace H. Lee, NBOA's vice president, legal affairs
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