Exempt vs. Non-Exempt Status


Lorna M. Wiggins
July 23, 2009

On April 20, 2004, the DOL announced its final overtime pay Regulations that substantially changed the criteria for overtime exemptions under the FLSA, effective August 23, 2004. According to DOL, these Regulations, called the "fair pay rules," were expected to expand overtime eligibility to an additional 6.7 million workers. Many of those workers (approximately 1.3 million) were expected to be entitled to overtime because their salaries were below the minimum salary level for exempt status.


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