Punching In: DOL Defends Its Authority to Regulate Overtime Pay

Monday morning musings for workplace watchers.

Overtime Rule Litigation|Expanding Anti-Bias Laws

Rebecca Rainey: The Biden administration is defending a Trump-era overtime rule in federal court in an attempt to quash a lawsuit that threatens to undermine its plans to issue another regulation to expand overtime protections to more workers.

Although Democrats say that Trump-era update doesn’t go far enough to protect workers, in recent filings in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas, attorneys representing the Biden Department of Labor have requested a quick decision to uphold the rule.

Government attorneys argue that the Trump DOL ...