Justices Should Quickly Reverse Overtime Proof Decision, US Says

A Fourth Circuit opinion on the burden companies must carry to show that their employees are exempt from overtime is “unreasoned and inconsistent with” high court precedent and should be summarily reversed, the federal government told the US Supreme Court.

The circuit court sided with the workers of a food products wholesalerby imposing a clear-and-convincing-evidence proof standard. But the Supreme Court “has long recognized that such a heightened standard of proof should not be applied to ordinary civil cases seeking monetary remedies,” the government said Tuesday in response to the justices’ 2023 invitation to weigh in on the petition for ...