FLSA White-Collar Exemptions Rule (2024 Vacatur & Restoration)

Current understanding

The Department of Labor is amending 29 CFR Part 541 to remove the vacated 2024 rule that had raised salary thresholds for the executive, administrative, professional, outside sales, and computer employee (EAP) overtime exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Federal courts vacated the 2024 rule, and this technical final rule restores the pre-2024 regulatory text (including the salary thresholds set by the 2019 rule). For workers, this means the higher salary cutoffs for overtime eligibility do not take effect; for employers, the pre-2024 exemption criteria remain the operative test.

Evidence log

• 2026-06-09 — Double the Wage for Overtime Act of 2026: cross-connection with double-the-wage-for-overtime-act: Interacts with the scope of FLSA overtime: the white-collar exemption threshold determines who is entitled to overtime, while this bill would change the rate at which that overtime is paid. (novelty: 3)
• 2025-03-06 — Guaranteeing Overtime for Truckers Act: cross-connection with guaranteeing-overtime-for-truckers-act: Parallel FLSA overtime-coverage questions: the trucker bill addresses the Section 13(b)(1) Motor Carrier exemption while the white-collar rule concerns the Section 13(a)(1) EAP exemption — both define who is entitled to overtime. (novelty: 2)
• 2026-05-15 — Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales, and Computer Employees; Implementation of Federal Court Judgments: cross-connection with dol-civil-penalty-inflation-adjustments: Both are DOL Wage and Hour Division regulatory actions affecting the FLSA enforcement baseline in 2025-2026 — one setting exemption thresholds, the other setting penalty amounts. (novelty: 2)

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