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Arkansas State releases statement about overtime regulations

Arkansas State University

Arkansas State University is using the current salary threshold in determining who is eligible for overtime.  Assistant Vice Chancellor for Human Resources Lori Winn says last week’s preliminary injunction from a federal court is what is behind the move. 

The new Fair Labor Standards Act, which would have been enacted this week, would require that salaried employees making under 47-thousand dollars would be eligible for overtime.  The new rules would have required those employees to clock in and clock out of a new Time Tracker System. 

Arkansas State is currently reviewing the exemption status of workers in accordance to the current labor act, which sets salary thresholds at $23,660.   

Here is the complete statement from Winn:

To all employees,

Last week, a federal court granted a preliminary injunction nationwide to halt the Fair Labor Standards Act overtime rules that were set to go into effect this week. Specifically, the preliminary injunction prevents the implementation of the Department of Labor’s Final Rule which would have changed the salary threshold for employees to be eligible to receive overtime from $23,660 to $47,476. 

Arkansas State University will continue to review the exemption status of individuals in accordance with the fair labor standards act, utilizing the current threshold of $23,660.    The University will move forward with the implementation of the Time Tracker System, as of December 1st for all non-exempt employees to ensure compliance with Federal and State regulations.  Human Resources will continue to work with the campus and all constituency groups to keep you informed as regulatory changes evolve.

Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.