In Michigan, a federal judge this week held that certain employees of a staffing company – namely account managers, senior account managers, assistant branch managers, staffing consultants, and senior staffing consultants – were administrative employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and therefore not entitled to overtime. Perry v. Randstad Gen. Partner (US) LLC,
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Second Circuit Finds Audit Associates Are Exempt Professionals
By Noel P. Tripp on
Posted in Exemptions
Affirming a highly-publicized 2012 decision from Southern District of New York Judge Colleen McMahon, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled last week that audit associates employed by “Big Four” accountancy KPMG qualified for the learned professional exemption from overtime under the FLSA. Pippins v. Kpmg Llp, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS…