Business Coach, Employer Sent to Trial for Overtime Pay Fight

A business coach mostly serving legal professionals must go to trial on a claim for overtime wages, after a federal judge denied the parties’ competing motions for summary judgment.

There were open fact questions regarding the Fair Labor Standards Act’s administrative exemption to the overtime pay rule—which the employer raised in defense—to award either the employee or employer judgment before trial, Judge Mary Kay Costello of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said in an opinion docketed Tuesday. Both parties so far introduced evidence that would allow a reasonable jury to find for either of them, ...