Supreme Court Sides with Employers on FLSA Classification

Employees who are not exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) must be paid time and half for hours exceeding 40 in the work week. Some salespeople at one company who are classified as exempt (i.e., no overtime pay) challenged the reasoning used by the company to make this classification. In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court said what’s needed is only a preponderance of the evidence and not the higher evidentiary standard of clear and convincing evidence that the employees wanted. #IdeaoftheDay

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