Employment Litigation, Unpaid Overtime, Highly Compensated Employees

The Highly Compensated Employee Exemption Under the FLSA - Misclassification of Highly Compensated Employees Can be Costly

Ice Miller on 4/16/2025

Classification of employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) remains a high-risk area where employers can easily misstep, potentially incurring thousands of dollars in overtime pay, liquidated damages, attorneys...more

SCOTUS Predictions: How Will Supreme Court Rule on a $200,000 Employee’s Claim for Overtime Pay?

Fisher Phillips on 1/12/2023

Imagine this scenario: You pay an employee a substantial daily rate — which works out to more than $200,000 a year. Still, the employee claims they’re entitled to overtime pay because they were paid a daily — rather than...more

Supreme Court Questions Whether Highly Compensated Oil Rig Worker Is Overtime Exempt

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 10/20/2022

On October 12, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments in a case regarding whether an oil rig worker who performed supervisory duties and was paid more than $200,000 per year on a day rate...more

Can the Justices Add Clarity to the Salary Basis Test for White Collar Overtime Exemptions?

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP on 5/27/2022

The U.S. Supreme Court has accepted the Petition for Certiorari of Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. to review an issue splitting the federal Courts of Appeals under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The Justices have...more

Not a Bad Place to Be: Fifth Circuit Addresses the “Highly Compensated” Exemption Under the FLSA

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 9/5/2019

Sometimes employment laws can make the common person’s head spin. That certainly could be the case for a recent Fifth Circuit opinion examining the “highly compensated” regulatory exemption from the overtime requirements of...more

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The Highly Compensated Employee Exemption Under the FLSA - Misclassification of Highly Compensated Employees Can be Costly

SCOTUS Predictions: How Will Supreme Court Rule on a $200,000 Employee’s Claim for Overtime Pay?

Supreme Court Questions Whether Highly Compensated Oil Rig Worker Is Overtime Exempt

Can the Justices Add Clarity to the Salary Basis Test for White Collar Overtime Exemptions?

Not a Bad Place to Be: Fifth Circuit Addresses the “Highly Compensated” Exemption Under the FLSA

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