More than a dozen businesses and industry lobbying groups are asking a federal court to toss out a new US Labor Department rule that seeks to expand overtime pay protections to about 4 million workers.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the Eastern District of Texas, argues that the regulation narrowing an exemption to overtime pay requirements went beyond its authority under the Fair Labor Standards Act and violated the Administrative Procedure Act.
“The Department has failed to adequately justify the dramatic change in policy embodied in the Rule, failed to take into account the strong reliance interests of the ...
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