As 2019 winds down, employers should ask themselves if they’re ready to face the New Year. January 1, 2020 brings mandatory regulations both nationwide and locally. Most notably, effective January 1st, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) – the federal wage/hour law – will raise its salary test to the “white collar” exemptions to approximately $35,000/year. The federal Department of Labor (DOL), which is tasked with enforcing the FLSA, predicts 1.3 million currently exempt employees will be reclassified as nonexempt next year by its final rule.