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Sunday, June 22, 2025

Wage And Hour Around The Corner: To Defer Or Not To Defer: That Is The Question Facing Lower Fed Courts And States After SCOTUS Decision In Loper Bright - Mondaq

The rules governing the employment relationship are always changing. Laws creating new employer obligations, technology solutions making work more efficient and more complicated...

United States Employment and HR

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The rules governing the employment relationship are always changing. Laws creating new employer obligations, technology solutions making work more efficient and more complicated, and rules governing the resolution of disputes between employers and their workers are around every corner. Wage and Hour Around the Corner is a new blog series for employers, in-house lawyers, and HR, payroll, and compensation, that helps employers stay on the cutting edge of wage and hour changes happening now and those on the horizon.

Seyfarth Synopsis: Following the US Supreme Court's decision in Loper Bright announcing the end of Chevron deference, lower federal courts have begun to apply the decision to uphold some federal wage-hour rules while striking down others; state courts, meanwhile, have taken divergent approaches to agency deference in the wake of Loper Bright.

In June 2024, the Supreme Court overruled the Chevron doctrine of agency deference, under which federal courts deferred to agencies' interpretations of ambiguous laws they administered so long as the agencies' constructions were based on a "permissible" reading of the statute. Under the Chevron regime, courts were to defer to agencies'...



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