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Laxalt applauds ruling halting U.S. Department of Labor Overtime Rule

Laxalt applauds ruling halting U.S. Department of Labor Overtime Rule
N&V Staff
November 22, 2016

Office of the Attorney General logo(Office of the Nevada Attorney General) – Nevada Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt announced that a U.S. District Court preliminarily enjoined the U.S. Department of Labor’s new overtime rule. The rule was originally scheduled to take effect on December 1, 2016, and was challenged on September 20th of this year by a 21-state coalition led by AG Laxalt. The ruling applies nationwide and to all employers, including states and private businesses. Participating states urged the federal court to prevent the rule from going into effect pending a final decision on the rule’s legality. After briefing and argument from attorneys in the Nevada Attorney General’s Solicitor General’s Office, Federal District Judge Amos Mazzant preliminarily enjoined the rule from being imposed by the federal government.

nevada attorney general adam laxalt“Federal agencies cannot unilaterally reinterpret federal  law to impose burdens on state governments and businesses, and today’s preliminary injunction reinforces the importance of the rule of law and constitutional government,” said Laxalt. “Left unchecked by the Court, this latest example of federal overreach would have imposed millions of dollars of unfunded liabilities on the States, a loss of private sector jobs, huge financial and regulatory burdens on small businesses, and undoubtedly caused great difficulty across the country in implementing this oppressive rule. Businesses and state and local governments across the country can breathe a sigh of relief now that this rule has been halted.”

The Fair Labor Standards Act sets a federal minimum wage and requires overtime pay for employees working over 40 hours per week. The same law requires an overtime exemption for “any bona fide executive, administrative, or professional” employees, leaving the Department of Labor to define the job duties of those categories of employees. On May 23 of this year, in response to President Obama’s directive to revisit its overtime rule, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a new rule that categorically denies an overtime exemption to any employee making less than $47,476 per year, regardless of whether the employee performs executive, administrative, or professional duties. The States and business plaintiffs have challenged the new rule as inconsistent with the clear requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act, among other things.

In addition to Nevada, other states represented in this challenge include: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin.

The case is listed as States of Nevada, et al. v. United States Department of Labor, et al., 4:16-CV-00731-ALM, filed in the Eastern District of Texas.

 

The Office of the Attorney General is headed by Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt. The office’s primary role is to serve the citizens of Nevada and to work to make the state a stronger, safer and freer place to live. Visit its website at AG.NV.gov.

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