Fifth Circuit’s FLSA Meal Break Decision Exposes Limit of Supreme Court’s...
Yesterday, I profiled Naylor v. Securiguard, a Fifth Circuit decision with a seemingly unique fact pattern (security guards on a naval base) with potentially broader impact. As I mentioned yesterday,...
View ArticleSupreme Court Denies Request to Delay DOL Home Care Wage Rule
In a form order without explanation, Chief Justice John Roberts yesterday declined home health care industry groups’ request to delay a lower court’s ruling upholding the Department of Labor’s new...
View ArticlePre-Shift Safety Meetings Not Compensable Under FLSA After Integrity...
We seem to have talked quite a bit lately about the Supreme Court’s interpretation of “integral and indispensable” activities under the Portal-to-Portal Act in Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. v....
View ArticleCongress Repeals FLSA Provision, Immigration Battle Heads to Supreme Court
Earlier this week, we discussed the important amendment to the transportation bill that would clarify that federal law preempts certain state meal and rest break laws for interstate carriers. That’s...
View ArticleLooking Back: Encino Motorcars v. Navarro One Year Later
Until last April, the Supreme Court had construed Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) exemptions “narrowly.” For example, just 7 years after the FLSA’s passage, the Court ruled in A.H. Phillips, Inc. v....
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