Of the three white collar exemptions, the administrative exemption is the vaguest and the hardest for an employer to prove. In an important case, the First Circuit has weighed in
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The Quagmire Of The Administrative Exemption: The Saga Of White Collar Production Workers
Of the three so-called white collar exemptions, the administrative is the grayest and the most difficult for an employer to prove. This is because such a worker does not usually…
Continue Reading The Quagmire Of The Administrative Exemption: The Saga Of White Collar Production WorkersProperty Damage Investigators Do Not Meet FLSA Administrative Exemption Test: Another Lesson For Employers On This Grayest of Gray Exemptions
As I have written numerous times, the administrative exemption is the grayest and most difficult for an employer to prove The tension between whether duties involve skill and experience or…
Continue Reading Property Damage Investigators Do Not Meet FLSA Administrative Exemption Test: Another Lesson For Employers On This Grayest of Gray ExemptionsBusiness Development Managers Exempt Under Administrative Exemption: A Case Study Of This Nuanced, Vague Exemption
I am always interested in administrative exemption cases because they are the hardest to prove for an employer. In an interesting case that illustrates the parameters of this exemption, the…
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Case In Trucking Industry Explores The Murky Parameters Of The FLSA Administrative Exemption And Gives Warnings For All Employers To Take Heed
Another administrative exemption case, this time in the trucking industry, tests the contours of that vague, nuanced exemption and to what occupations it applies. In this case, a group of…
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Health Care Industry FLSA Collective Action Focuses On Exempt Status Of Care Coordinators
Another exemption lawsuit has been filed. What else is new? This time, a group of nurses and care coordinators determine who analyze requests for coverage from health care providers have…
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FLSA Collective Action Defeated in One Fell Swoop by Exemption Defense: Way to Go!
I love it when the employer wins an exemption case because the deck is so often stacked against the employer on these kinds of cases. This is especially so when…
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Admissions Director Exemption Issue May Impact Whether She Is Entitled To Pay For On-Call Hours
I have blogged about and have long been concerned about working time issues and what constitutes compensable work hours. One of the thorniest of these issues is on-call time…
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Bank Files Cert Petition to US Supreme Court On Administrative Exemption: The Neverendng Story
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…
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Bank Underwriters Fall Within Administrative Exemption: The Tension Between Use of Skill and Experience and Discretion/Independent Judgment
The grayest of the white collar exemptions (as I often have said) is the administrative. In a 2-1 decision, the Sixth Circuit has again proven the truth of this maxim. …
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