Overtime Rule to Be Walked Back by Labor Department

Government lawyers told a federal appeals court June 30 that the Labor Department plans to revise its pending Obama era overtime rule. They also asked the court to affirm the DOL’s right to use salary levels to determine eligibility for time-and-a-half pay in the future.

“The Department requests that this Court not address the validity of the specific salary level set by the 2016 final rule ($913 per week), which the Department intends to revisit through new rulemaking,” attorneys for the Justice Department and the DOL told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Instead, the DOL wants ...