Overtime Rule Survives Tech Firm’s Bid for Nationwide Block (1)

A Texas federal judge has denied a software company’s request to temporarily halt the US Labor Department’s new overtime rule, which went into effect today.

Judge Sam Cummings of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas disagreed with Flint Avenue LLC’s argument that a preliminary injunction was necessary to prevent the rule from driving up its payroll costs, finding that the measure’s initial July 1 increase to overtime salary thresholds wouldn’t affect any of its employees.

“Plaintiff has failed to meet its burden of showing irreparable harm that would justify the extraordinary remedy of injunctive relief to ...