Last year, the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued new overtime regulations that would have substantially increased the salary level necessary for employees to remain classified as exempt.  Just before the new regulations were to go into effect, a United States District Court in Texas issued a nationwide injunction preventing the DOL from enforcing the overtime regulations.  You can read more on that here:  https://wyattemployment.com/2016/11/23/texas-judge-blocks-overtime-rule/

Now, the DOL seems ready to revisit the issue.  During the last week of June, the DOL sent a Request for Information related to the overtime rule to the Office of Management and Budget for its review.  Once the Request for Information is published, the public will have an opportunity to comment.   It seems likely that the DOL will again attempt to revise the current salary basis test, but perhaps not as substantially as previously attempted.  Watch this site for further details as they develop.