Employees whose job it was to investigate and determine the likely cause of damage to the equipment of broadband service providers were misclassified as exempt by their employer, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently held. Therefore, the employees’ overtime claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) were improperly dismissed by the trial court.
T. Chase Samples
T. Chase Samples is a principal and the office litigation manager of the Greenville, South Carolina, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. His practice covers the spectrum of employment litigation, including both state and federal claims, and individual and class action suits.
In recent years, most of Chase's practice has been in the area of wage and hour law. He regularly defends corporations and organizations against class and collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and state law. He also regularly advises clients on wage and hour compliance issues. He is a member of the editorial board of the firm’s quarterly Class Action Trends report.
Eleventh Circuit Case An Excellent Primer on the FLSA’s Administrative Exemption
Business development managers, whose job was to convince corporate customers to purchase General Motors vehicles for their corporate fleets, qualified for the administrative exemption from the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently held. Brown v. Nexus Bus. Solutions, LLC, 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 8777…