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        "title": "DOL's new overtime rule may face legal challenges: Should employers wait and see?",
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        "title": "DOL to focus enforcement efforts on FMLA, FLSA retaliation",
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        "summary": "As Secretary Alexander Acosta has settled into his position at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), employers are seeing several new compliance initiatives.",
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