On March 13, 2014, President Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum directing the Department to update and modernize the regulations defining which white collar workers are protected by the FLSA’s minimum wage and overtime standards. The salary level test is supposed to help identify salaried workers who are entitled to overtime pay when they work long hours. The current salary level is outdated and no longer does its job of helping to separate salaried white collar employees who should get overtime pay for working extra hours from those who should be exempt. Through this Final Rule, the Department is updating these regulations to ensure that the FLSA’s intended overtime protections are fully implemented, and to simplify the identification of overtime-eligible workers, thus making the exemption easier for employers and workers to understand and apply. These revisions will also help ensure that in the future the regulations continue to appropriately separate workers who are entitled to overtime protections and those who may be exempt.