Congress enacted the FLSA in response to inequitable depression-era working conditions. See 29 U.S.C. § 202(a). The FLSA instituted a mandatory overtime pay provision, which requires that employers compensate employees one-and-a-half times their normal...
Fair Labor Standards Act
In 2012, a group of five individuals employed as service advisors (collectively “Navarro”) at Encino Motorcars (“Encino”) filed suit against Encino for violating the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) by, among other things, failing to pay them overtime...
Congress enacted the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) in 1938, seeking to remedy perceived shortcomings in the national labor market and to provide a minimum standard of acceptable working conditions for all employees. See Brief...
Between April and December 2007, Laura Symczyk worked as a Registered Nurse at a healthcare facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. See Symczyk v. Genesis HealthCare Corp., 656 F.3d 189, 190 (3d Cir. 2011). In December 2009, Symczyk initiated a...
Tum, representing current and former employees at Barber Foods' poultry processing plant in Portland, Maine, sued to recover unpaid wages for time spent waiting at and walking to stations where...
Petitioner Kevin Kasten worked for Respondent Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics ("Saint-Gobain"), a company that manufactures high performance plastic materials, from October 2003 through December 2006. See Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics...
Originally, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) mandated a minimum wage and overtime benefits to those workers whose employer was engaged in commerce or produced goods for commerce and whose gross sales met or exceeded $250,000. 29 U.S.C. § 213. In...
The steelworkers involved in this collective action lawsuit are approximately 800 current or former employees of United States Steel Corporation (“U.S. Steel”), primarily from the company’s Gary, Indianaplant. See Brief for Petitioner,...
Petitioner Tyson Foods, Inc. (“Tyson”) operates and manages meat-processing facilities across the country, including a facility in Storm Lake, Iowa. See Bouaphakeo, et al. v. Tyson Foods, Inc., 765 F.3d 791, 794 (8th Cir. 2015). Tyson employs...