Justice doesn’t usually move fast, but it did this time.  As we relayed a few days ago, a Texas judge heard oral arguments last Friday challenging the Department of Labor’s April regulation raising the salary threshold for the overtime exemption to…

On Friday, November 8, 2024, a Texas federal judge heard arguments in the case of Texas v. U.S. Department of Labor, challenging the DOL’s regulation raising the salary threshold for the white-collar exemptions to the overtime requirements of Fair Labor…

As one of the few attorneys who can perform math more complex than converting minutes into tenths-of-an-hour, I wanted to take just one or two tenths-of-an-hour of your time (1-12 minutes) to discuss an often-overlooked aspect of retention, promotion, and…

As one of the few attorneys who can perform math more complex than converting minutes into tenths-of-an-hour, I wanted to take just one or two tenths-of-an-hour of your time (1-12 minutes) to discuss an often-overlooked aspect of retention, promotion, and…

Late yesterday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Ada Brown in Dallas ruled that the FTC does not have the authority to issue broad rules to ban what it considers to be unfair approaches to competition. Judge Brown added that even if…

As we discussed in April, the FTC announced a new rule which would ban non-competition agreements in most situations for all employers. The new rule would make it illegal to enter or attempt to enforce an agreement which would prevent…