High Court Skips Ex-Schlumberger Worker’s Overtime Exemption Row

A former Schlumberger Technology Corp. worker who says the company wrongly treated him as exempt from overtime wage protections failed on Monday to convince the US Supreme Court to take a look at the case.

The ex-employee had urged the justices to weigh in on a “clear circuit split” on how to apply the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime exemptions for executive, administrative, or professional employees. The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit’s interpretation of the statute’s requirement that an employee be paid on a “salary basis” to fall under those categories also conflicts with recent high court ...