Case: Wage & Hour/Exempt Employees (11th Cir.)

The Eleventh Circuit ruled that two farm crew leaders for a fruit harvesting company performed work outside the agriculture exemption to federal overtime pay requirements when they drove seasonal laborers employed under H-2A visas to and from laundromats and grocery stores. The crew leaders allegedly weren’t paid the additional compensation required by the Fair Labor Standards Act for hours worked beyond 40 hours per week, the court said. The company admitted it wasn’t a farmer, the court said, and the driving wasn’t FLSA exempt because it didn’t take place on a farm and it didn’t have significance or purpose solely ...