Coates v. Dassault Falcon Jet Corp., No. 19-2167 (8th Cir. 2020)
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Plaintiffs filed suit alleging that Falcon Jet violated the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Arkansas Minimum Wage Act when it failed to pay team leaders and production liaisons not less than one and one-half times their regular rates for hours worked in excess of forty per week after June 6, 2014. Sixteen other team leaders and production liaisons joined the action. Falcon Jet claimed exemptions for executive or administrative employees and highly-compensated employees. The district court held that the exemptions do not apply and awarded plaintiffs liquidated damages.
The Eighth Circuit reversed and held that the district court erred in granting plaintiffs summary judgment on the limited record, because the record did not establish that every plaintiff was not an exempt employee for the entire period at issue. Accordingly, the court remanded for further proceedings.
Court Description: [Loken, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Gruender, Circuit Judge] Civil case - Fair Labor Standards Act. The district court erred in granting plaintiffs summary judgment on this limited record as the record did not establish that all 18 plaintiffs were not exempt employees for the entire period in question; remanded for further proceedings.
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