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Home > HR Tools > Overtime Revisited: The DOL's Final Regulations
What you need to know to comply
It's official — the DOL has overhauled white-collar overtime exemption rules for the first time in decades. Employers
will have to revise policies, rethink procedures, and review classifications.
The clearly written, in-depth report Overtime Revisited: The DOL's Final Regulations helps you answer any questions you may have:
- How to determine if an employee is exempt from overtime requirements under the new standards.
- How to rewrite workplace policies to ensure compliance.
- How to manage employee job responsibilities and pay to preserve the existing exemptions.
- How to suspend employees for misconduct without violating their exempt status.
- How to audit your organization to ensure compliance with the new regulations.
- How to take advantage of new "safe harbor" provisions that protect you from certain types of overtime violations.
And that's not all. Overtime Revisited: The DOL's Final Regulations explains all of the new tests for meeting the exemption standards for:
- Executives
- Administrative employees
- Professionals
- Outside sales workers
- Computer professionals
All in the plain English used in everyday conversation.
Exemption Audit Outline
Overtime Revisited: The DOL's Final Regulations includes an Exemption Audit Outline for simplifying your workforce exemption status review. Just answer yes or no to each question in this easy-to-navigate outline and you'll quickly arrive at a defensible status determination. This handy tool helps you rapidly assess each position in your organization under the new rules and decide if overtime is required.
Think you know all about the new overtime regs? Then take our Big Changes Quiz and see how you stack up.
- What's the minimum salary requirement?
- What's dramatically different about the exempt duties test?
- For classifying administrative employees, how is the new position of responsibility test different from the old discretion and independent judgment test?
- How can an employee acquire "specialized knowledge" under the new rules and switch to exempt status?
- How can you save employees' exempt status, even after making improper paycheck deductions?
Answer these questions incorrectly and your organization could face huge overtime wage liability for misclassified employees. But the correct answers to these questions, and many more, are yours in the all-new Overtime Revisited: The DOL's Final Regulations available at with absolutely no risk.
Employment law attorney Julie Athey has written several publications for Human Resources professionals, including Defusing the Overtime Bomb: How to Comply with the FLSA and How to Fire Employees Without Getting Burned. She graduated with honors from the University of Tulsa College of Law, where she was an editor of the Energy Law Journal. She also obtained her undergraduate degree in English, cum laude, from the University of Tulsa. Her excellent legal and editorial skills have made her one of the most popular authors of M. Lee Smith Publishers resources.
Compliance Deadline Coming Soon
Don't get caught fumbling the overtime football. Invest in your organization's safety by ordering the all-new Overtime Revisited: The DOL's Final Regulations with the Exemption Audit Outline right now for the low price of just $97. Guarantee: If you're dissatisfied, simply return it within 30 days for a complete refund. You have no risk.
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Additional Resources
Mastering the DOL's New Overtime Pay Regulations
This HR Hero Audio Conference on CD features two Washington, D.C. attorneys explaining what the new regulations mean.
Overtime article:
DOL issues final "FairPay" overtime regs
Employment Law Letter subscribers: The full text of the new regulations plus links to DOL Fact Sheets are available in the Subscribers Area.
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