Administrative Exemption

In class actions there is always a named plaintiff (or two or three, etc).  That person acts as the class representative and is the “flagship” for the entire case.  When
Continue Reading Named Plaintiff in OT Class Action Dooms The Case By Her “Re-Inventing” Her Deposition Testimony: A Cautionary Tale!

The last several years have been quite worrisome to me, as a management side practitioner, on the issue of USDOL agency-initiated liquidated damages assessments. It used to be that only
Continue Reading USDOL States It Will No Longer Routinely Seek Liquidated Damages in Administrative Investigations: A Return to Normalcy

I have found a very interesting exemption case involving a rather unique job title that also is very instructive in the interpretation of the Highly Compensated Exemption (“HCE”) under the
Continue Reading Organ Procurement Coordinator Found Exempt Under FLSA Highly Compensated Exemption: A Case Study in the HCE

There have been a host of wage hour cases in the energy industry and I have often commented upon these.  Many concern misclassification issues and another example of this phenomenon
Continue Reading Another FLSA Misclassification Case in the Energy Industry: A Continuing (and Troubling) Phenomenon

There have been so many cases involving employees in the financial services industries and their exempt status or lack thereof. In another variation on this theme, Provident Savings Bank is
Continue Reading Bank Files Cert Petition to US Supreme Court On Administrative Exemption: The Neverendng Story