Case: Wage & Hour/Exempt Employees (N.D. Tex.)

A federal district court in Texas granted partial summary judgment to a group of nurse practitioners at Amarillo Urgent Care, LLC on their claims that they are are not “exempt” employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and thus may be entitled to overtime. Relying on Fifth Circuit precedent, the court finds that the nurse practitioners aren’t medical professionals and are exempt from FLSA overtime rules only if they received a salary rather than hourly pay. The undisputed evidence established that they were hourly employees so they may be entitled to overtime, the court said, but they failed to prove, ...