The U.S. Supreme Court this morning ruled, 5-4, that pharmaceutical representatives are “outside salesmen” under the Fair Labor Standards Act. In plain English, this now means that those representatives are now considered exempt from overtime.
This decision is a big victory for pharmaceutical companies who have been
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday heard arguments over whether pharmaceutical sales reprsentatives were properly classified as exempt (from overtime) because they fall within the “outside sales” exemption of the nation’s wage & hour laws.
The plaintiffs said that they were
On this Valentine’s Day, while you’re out shopping for flowers and chocolate, here are a few nuggets of employment law that you might have missed lately:
Earlier today, the Second Circuit vacated a lower federal court decision that had dismissed a class action lawsuit by 2500 pharmaceutical representatives who claimed that they were improperly classified as exempt from overtime. The decision paves the way for the class action to continue, and sets the stage for potentially other class actions against other