October 23, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court should stick to the preponderance of the evidence standard in wage and hour cases in which courts have to deem whether workers are overtime-exempt, a food distributor said, arguing that that has been the long-used standard.
October 08, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments regarding the overtime exemption for outside sales employees, and the justices are also weighing petitions related to federal contract worker minimum wage and California’s worker classification law. As the justices return to the bench, here are wage and hour cases before them.
September 25, 2024
A stricter standard requiring employers to prove by clear and convincing evidence that their employees are overtime-exempt is necessary to maintaining federal labor law's public purpose, a group of sales representatives for an international food distributor told the U.S. Supreme Court.
September 04, 2024
An employer-friendly argument the U.S. Department of Justice made in an overtime cased is part of the chorus of reasons to think the U.S. Supreme Court will continue retreating from interpreting the Fair Labor Standards Act in employees' favor, attorneys told Law360.
August 21, 2024
Employers should support that their employees are overtime-exempt through the more stable and long-used preponderance-of-the-evidence standard, the government told the U.S. Supreme Court, saying that a stricter test goes against the court's precedent.
August 20, 2024
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce told the U.S. Supreme Court that forcing employers to prove by clear and convincing evidence that their employees are overtime-exempt would shake up civil litigation, supporting an international food distributor's efforts for courts to stick to a broader standard.
August 15, 2024
Two legal services organizations told the U.S. Supreme Court that holding employers to a higher standard to prove their employees are overtime-exempt would break a legislative balance and clash with federal law, backing an international food distributor's challenge to a Fourth Circuit ruling.
August 15, 2024
An international food distributor told the U.S. Supreme Court that subjecting employers to a higher standard in order to claim that certain workers are overtime-exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act would have serious ramifications in employment law, urging the justices to follow Congress' directions.
June 18, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision this week to review evidentiary standards in wage and hour cases is likely to result in a ruling amplifying the justices' 2018 precedent that statutory exemptions from overtime should be construed fairly, rather than narrowly
June 17, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a wage and hour case from a supermarket distributor, teeing up an opportunity for the justices to articulate the standard by which an employer must demonstrate workers are exempt from overtime.