July 09, 2021
The Eleventh Circuit vacated a lower court's decision that Flowers Foods distribution workers can't be forced to take their unpaid overtime claims to arbitration, ruling Friday that the lower court will need to reconsider the case in light of an opinion on the transportation industry exemption the circuit issued just last month.
August 25, 2020
Baking company Flowers Foods has called on the Eleventh Circuit to push overtime claims lodged by its distributors into arbitration, panning the idea that those workers — who deliver Flowers' goods to retail customers — qualify for the transportation industry arbitration exemption.