Companies have open questions about the fate of the Obama-era overtime regulations, despite a Texas federal court ruling nixing rules that would have doubled the salary threshold for workers eligible for time and half pay and extended greater pay to millions of more workers.

The answers will hinge on how the U.S. Labor Department moves to revise the Obama administration's rules. Meanwhile, companies—many of which were unable to wait for the courts to resolve the dispute—had to make decisions on whether to comply or keep the status quo and continue to prepare for however the regulations ended up.

“Employers have been left in limbo,” said Lori Brown, president and chief operating officer of Compliance HR at a webinar this week that highlighted issues about the overtime rule. “It's an ever-changing compliance dilemma.”