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Federal Register · May 15, 2026
The title they went with Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales, and Computer Employees; Implementation of Federal Court Judgments Noisy translates that to

Salaried workers lose their overtime protection. Again.

What happened
Millions of salaried employees just lost their automatic right to overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours a week. The US Labor Department officially wiped out its own 2024 rule that was supposed to expand who qualifies for time-and-a-half. This update is the agency admitting it lost in federal court, reverting the minimum salary threshold back to the old, lower baseline.
Why it matters
Retail managers, lower-tier tech workers, and administrative supervisors lose a scheduled raise or a cap on their hours. Employers win lower, predictable labor costs. Companies can legally require anyone making just above the old 2019 salary baseline to work 50 or 60 hours a week without paying them a single cent extra.
The signal
Watch whether the Labor Department attempts to draft a completely new, lower salary threshold by December to bypass the court's legal objections, or if the federal threshold stays frozen at the 2019 standard for the rest of the administration.
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