Courts continue to wrestle with claims brought by individuals treated by businesses as outside the scope of the FLSA’s minimum wage and overtime requirements. Many of these claims are asserted by individuals classified as volunteers and of course interns, all claiming to be employees entitled to the protections of the FLSA. In one such
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Fourth Circuit: CEO’s Administrative Assistant Properly Classified As An Exempt Administrative Employee
By Noel P. Tripp on
Posted in Exemptions
To qualify for the administrative exemption, DOL regulations require that an “executive assistant or administrative assistant to a business owner or senior executive of a large business “ perform his or her duties “without specific instructions or prescribed procedures” and that he or she be “delegated authority regarding matters of significance.” 29 CFR § 541.203(d). If …