Case: Wage & Hour/FLSA Retaliation (W.D. Va.)

A federal district court granted in part and denied in part Eldor Automotive Powertrain USA LLC’s motion for summary judgment regarding a terminated manager’s claims that it retaliated against him in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act and breached his employment contract when it fired him for complaining about a lack of staffing and requesting incentive and overtime pay for his employees. The court ruled that his vague mentions of state wage law compliance and bonus and incentive pay proposals in emails to management were insufficient to be viewed as protected activities under the FLSA and didn’t put Eldor ...