Last week, PIA joined a coalition of allies in sending a letter to the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor (DOL), requesting that the DOL abandon or postpone the issuance of a planned proposed rulemaking that is expected to alter the overtime regulations pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The DOL’s fall 2022 regulatory agenda indicated that the DOL’s goal was to publish the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) this spring.

The DOL’s forthcoming NPRM on the overtime rule will represent its first consideration of changes to the overtime exemptions since the pandemic upended the labor market beginning in 2020. Despite the lifting of the COVID-19 public health emergency, concerns over supply chain disruptions, workforce shortages, inflationary pressures, and the shifting dynamics of the American workforce continue. Changing the overtime rule now would threaten our vulnerable, still-recovering economy.

As we navigate the current uncertain economic climate, PIA will continue to monitor the DOL’s activity around potential changes to the white-collar overtime exemptions.