Bills v. Cactus Family Farms, LLC, No. 20-2600 (8th Cir. 2021)
Annotate this CaseThe Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Cactus Farms in an action brought by plaintiff, alleging a violation of the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The court concluded that the district court did not err in finding that plaintiff was exempt from coverage under the FLSA because he was an agricultural employee. In this case, plaintiff's load assessments were on-the-farm practices "incident to or in conjunction with such farming operations" regardless of whether the assessment was for the transportation of pigs between farms or for their transportation from a farm to processing.
Court Description: [Wollman, Author, with Loken and Stras, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Fair Labor Standards Act. Plaintiff's job assessing hog loading conditions qualified as on-the-farm practices "incident to or in conjunction with such farming operations," and the district court did not err in finding he was exempt from coverage under the Act because he was an employee employed in agriculture - see 29 U.S.C. Sec. 213(a)(6).
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