In July 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division proposed several updates and revisions to the federal regulations governing the Fair Labor Standards Act’s executive, administrative, professional, outside sales and computer employee exemptions.
These “white-collar” exemptions, originally enacted in 1938, exclude certain workers from the minimum wage and overtime pay requirements of the FLSA, and were premised on the belief that the exempted workers earned salaries well above the minimum wage and enjoyed other privileges, including above-average fringe benefits, greater job security and better opportunities for advancement, setting them apart from workers entitled to overtime pay.
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