May 24, 2024
A Fifth Circuit panel on Friday backed for the second time a lower court's ruling that two engineers receiving a weekly minimum salary as part of their compensation package were not overtime-exempt and sent the case back to the district court to determine damages awards.
January 29, 2024
A staffing firm accused of misclassifying two engineers as overtime-exempt will get a second chance to argue its case before a Fifth Circuit panel, but not before the full court, which rejected the company's bid.
August 08, 2023
A Fifth Circuit panel went against U.S. Supreme Court precedent when it ruled that a pair of engineers whose pay included a weekly minimum salary were entitled to overtime, a staffing firm said, urging the full appeals court to step in.
July 25, 2023
The Fifth Circuit found no error in a trial court's determination that a pair of engineers who received a weekly minimum salary as only part of their compensation package were not overtime exempt and affirmed their lower court victory.
June 21, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor filed an amicus brief in the Fifth Circuit on behalf of two engineers suing a staffing firm over claims of unpaid overtime, arguing the engineers were not salaried employees and thus were not overtime-exempt under department regulations.
June 13, 2023
Two engineers said a staffing firm paid them on an hourly basis and should have paid their overtime accordingly, urging the Fifth Circuit to uphold a Texas federal court's ruling that the company misclassified them as overtime-exempt.
April 13, 2023
A staffing firm urged the Fifth Circuit to overturn a ruling that it willfully misclassified a pair of highly compensated engineers as overtime-exempt, telling the appeals court that hourly compensation provided to workers on top of salaries did not erase their salaried status.