Construction Company Nabs Early Win in Engineer’s Overtime Case

A construction services company is free of a former employee’s wage allegations after a federal judge ruled the worker’s job as a safety engineer fell under an overtime exemption.

There’s no genuine factual dispute that the worker satisfies all the tests to qualify for the Fair Labor Standards Act’s administrative employee exemption, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan said. Walbridge Aldinger LLC paid him “a guaranteed annual salary reflective of his regular work,” rather than on an hourly basis, and his oversight of safety compliance at job sites “involved supervising others’ conduct with a high ...