Last week, an Ohio, a federal judge held that a home health aide failed to demonstrate that she performed general housework unrelated to the care of her patients, and therefore qualified as a provider of companionship services under the Fair Labor Standards Act’s previous formulation of the “companion” exemption. As such, the home health
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Ohio Judge: Mortgage Underwriters Properly Classified As Exempt Administrative Employees
By Noel P. Tripp on
The exempt status of loan officers continues to make headlines as the Mortgage Bankers Association presses for Supreme Court affirmance of its successful challenge to a DOL opinion regarding the applicability of the administrative exemption to those workers. A new court decision highlights the fact intensive nature of exemption inquiries, and also the potentially misleading…
Ohio Judge Rules Insurance Investigators Exempt as “Administrative” Employees
By Noel P. Tripp on
Posted in Exemptions
As the volume of FLSA lawsuits remains high, the frequency of collective action trials – once unheard of – has correspondingly increased. On January 5, 2012, following a bench trial, Judge Edmund Sargus, Jr. of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio ruled that 91 current and former “special investigators” for defendant…