The U.S. Department of Labor today issued a proposed rule raising the minimum salary an employee must receive to be considered exempt from overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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What Businesses Need to Know About Texas’s First Comprehensive Data Privacy Law
The State of Texas recently adopted its first comprehensive data privacy law, bringing the State in line with nine other States that have adopted data privacy laws generally following the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. In this blog post we highlight some of the key protections Texas consumers are now entitled to and correspondingly, key obligations of business with respect to those consumers.…
Louisiana Legislative Session Convenes – Highlighting the Lobbying Election for Nonprofits
With the 2023 Louisiana Legislative Session under way, it is a good time to highlight the lobbying election available to qualifying public charities exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Nonprofit organizations that qualify for federal income tax exemption as public charities under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue…