Rat Inflating Union Organizer Exempt From Overtime

A labor union defeated a claim by one of its New York organizers that he was entitled to overtime pay (Krupinski v. Laborers Eastern Region Org. Fund, S.D.N.Y., No. 15-cv-00982, 9/30/16).

Organizer Daniel Krupinski said he engaged primarily in non-exempt duties for Laborers Eastern Region Organizing Fund, an affiliate of the the Laborers International Union of North America. But Judge Richard J. Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York disagreed, finding in a Sept. 30 opinion that Krupinski was an overtime-exempt administrative employee under the Fair Labor Standards Act.