Case: Wage & Hour/Overtime (W.D. Mo.)

A trial is necessary to determine if a Missouri law firm violated the Fair Labor Standards Act and analogous state law by failing to pay a paralegal/secretary for overtime, because there are factual disputes as to whether the employee qualifies for the FLSA’s individual coverage, and as to whether she worked more than a 40-hour week, a federal district court in Missouri held. She may qualify for individual coverage based on her allegation that she had regular, recurrent, and meaningful contact with the law firm’s vendors, clients, and/or companies who were outside the state of Missouri about 100 times during ...