Guest Speaker at Firm Overtime Seminar Promoted to Top Wage-Hour Position with DOL

Alfred B. Robinson, Jr. was the special guest speaker at the seminar on May 17, 2004 regarding the new overtime regulations sponsored by Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore and The Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce.  Three days later, Mr. Robinson testified in Congress on behalf of the Bush Administration as to the new overtime rules.  On June 2, 2004, the Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao announced that Al Robinson was promoted to the position of Acting Administrator of the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division effective June 14, 2004.  The new overtime regulations will take effect August 23, 2004.  For more information about the DOL’s new overtime regulations, please contact W. David Paxton or Todd A. Leeson at (540) 983-9300.