After more than two years of keeping employers in suspense, the U.S. Department of Labor finally released its final rules on white-collar overtime exemptions on Tuesday. The new rules, which take effect Dec. 1, will make an estimated 4.2 million additional U.S. workers eligible to receive overtime pay from their companies.
Many business and employer groups have sounded the alarm about the new regulations, characterizing them as burdensome for companies and potentially bad for workers. While there’s little doubt the final rules will affect plenty of companies, their legal departments do have choices in how to respond to the changes.
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