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1 month ago | 
mondaq.com | Allan Bloom |Evandro C Gigante |Laura Fant |Brenna R. McLean
On Wednesday, February 19, 2025, Acting Equal EmploymentOpportunity Commission ("EEOC") Chair Andrea R. Lucas announced the EEOC plans to target employersthat "illegally prefer non-American workers," as well as"staffing agencies and other agents that unlawfully complywith client companies' illegal preferences against Americanworkers" through increased enforcement of Title VII'snational origin protections.
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2 months ago | 
lexology.com | Allan Bloom |Evandro C Gigante |Laura Fant
On Wednesday, February 19, 2025, Acting Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) Chair Andrea R. Lucas announced that the EEOC plans to target employers that “illegally prefer non-American workers,” as well as “staffing agencies and other agents that unlawfully comply with client companies’ illegal preferences against American workers” through increased enforcement of Title VII’s national origin protections.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Allan Bloom
On August 31, 2017, the Texas federal district court that had issued a preliminary injunction in November 2016 blocking implementation of the Obama Administration’s revised overtime rule granted the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment, declaring the rule invalid and ending the case at the district court. The DOL had appealed the injunction with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, but on September 5, 2017, the agency filed an unopposed motion to withdraw the appeal as moot.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Allan Bloom
For the second time in seven years, a federal court in Texas has struck down a U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) rule aimed at expanding the scope of overtime eligibility to workers across the country. On November 15, 2024, in State of Texas v. United States Dep’t of Labor, Judge Sean D.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Allan Bloom
In its September 11, 2024 opinion in Mayfield v. Department of Labor, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that the U.S. Department of Labor’s explicitly delegated authority to “define” and “delimit” the terms of the executive, administrative, and professional (EAP) exemptions includes the power to set a minimum salary for exemption. In 2019, DOL issued a final rule raising the minimum salary required to qualify for most EAP exemptions from $455 per week to $684 per week.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Allan Bloom
In its September 11, 2024 opinion in Mayfield v. Department of Labor, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that the U.S. Department of Labor’s explicitly delegated authority to “define” and “delimit” the terms of the executive, administrative, and professional (EAP) exemptions includes the power to set a minimum salary for exemption. In 2019, DOL issued a final rule raising the minimum salary required to qualify for most EAP exemptions from $455 per week to $684 per week.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Allan Bloom |Lloyd B Chinn |Evandro C Gigante
On August 20, 2024, in Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade Commission, No. 3:24-cv-00986-E (N.D. Tex.), the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas granted summary judgment to the plaintiffs and ordered the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) non-compete rule (the “Rule”) to be set aside with respect to all employers nationally and that it shall not be enforced or take effect on September 4, 2024. The FTC may immediately appeal the court’s decision to the Fifth Circuit.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Allan Bloom |Lloyd B Chinn |Evandro C Gigante |Steven D Hurd
On August 20, 2024, in Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade
Commission, No. 3:24-cv-00986-E (N.D. Tex.), the United States
District Court for the Northern District of Texas granted summary
judgment to the plaintiffs and ordered the Federal Trade
Commission's ("FTC") non-compete rule (the
"Rule") to be set aside with respect to all employers
nationally and that it shall not be enforced or take effect on
September 4, 2024. The FTC may immediately appeal the court's
decision to the Fifth Circuit.
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Aug 21, 2024 | mondaq.com | Allan Bloom |Lloyd B Chinn |Evandro C Gigante |Steven D Hurd
On August 20, 2024, in Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade
Commission, No. 3:24-cv-00986-E (N.D. Tex.), the United States
District Court for the Northern District of Texas granted summary
judgment to the plaintiffs and ordered the Federal Trade
Commission's ("FTC") non-compete rule (the
"Rule") to be set aside with respect to all employers
nationally and that it shall not be enforced or take effect on
September 4, 2024. The FTC may immediately appeal the court's
decision to the Fifth Circuit.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Allan Bloom |Lloyd B Chinn |Evandro C Gigante |Steven D Hurd |Steven J Pearlman |Pinchos Goldberg | +1 more
On August 20, 2024, in Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade Commission, No. 3:24-cv-00986-E (N.D. Tex.), the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas granted summary judgment to the plaintiffs and ordered the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) non-compete rule (the “Rule”) to be set aside with respect to all employers nationally and that it shall not be enforced or take effect on September 4, 2024. The FTC may immediately appeal the court’s decision to the Fifth Circuit.
