Affirming a ruling from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit last week confirmed that drivers for a motor coach company remained exempt under the motor carrier exemption, notwithstanding the relatively low volume of interstate transit and related revenue generated by the company’s interstate routes. Resch v. Krapf’s Coaches
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California Court Finds State Meal and Rest Period Requirements Preempted by Federal Motor Carrier Regulation
By Noel P. Tripp on
Posted in California, Coverage
While states generally are free to enact wage and hour laws providing greater protections than contained in the Fair Labor Standards Act, sometimes such laws run afoul of federal statutes governing particular industries. In a recent decision exemplifying this type of preemption, a judge in the United States District Court of the Southern District of …