CTCI Engineering Unit Beats Worker Bid to Revive Overtime Claims

CTCI Americas Inc. defeated workers’ attempt to revive a lawsuit alleging the company owes them pay, when an appeals court Thursday affirmed the four highly-paid individuals fall under an overtime exemption.

The engineering, procurement, and construction services company put forth enough evidence to show that the workers—who earned annual salaries ranging from $130,000 to $250,000—qualified for a Fair Labor Standards Act carveout for bona fide executives, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said in an unpublished opinion.

The workers allege the CTCI Corp. subsidiary ran afoul of the FLSA when it paid them their regular hourly ...