Case: Wage & Hour/Overtime (E.D. Va.)

May 20, 2020, 9:51 PM UTC

A federal district court in Virginia ruled that Topgolf International Inc. must continue to litigate a sales account manager’s claims that the sports gaming company had willfully misclassified her as exempt from overtime requirements while she held the title of corporate event sales manager, and thus failed to pay her overtime she was owed under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Certain highly paid employees who do executive, professional, or administrative work are exempt from the FLSA’s overtime requirements, the court said, but the sales and business development tasks she regularly performed didn’t fall under that exemption, and the company failed ...

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