When did the FLSA change its minimum wage and overtime rules?

On July 6, 2015, the Department of Labor published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, based on a 2014 presidential memorandum signed by President Barack Obama directing the Department of Labor to update the regulations defining which white-collar workers are protected by the FLSA's minimum wage and overtime standards.

What are the federal overtime provisions?

Revisions include increases to the standard salary level and the highly compensated employee total annual compensation threshold, and a mechanism that provides for the timely and efficient updating of these earnings thresholds to reflect current earnings data. The federal overtime provisions are contained in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

Do employers have to pay workers minimum wage or overtime?

79 For instance, absent an employer-worker agreement or workplace custom, employers may not be required to pay workers minimum wage or overtime pay for the time workers spend changing clothes at the beginning and end of shifts while on work premises. See, for example, Genuth v. National Biscuit Co., 81 F. Supp. 213 (S.D.N.Y. 1948).